> Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
>
> > > Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> writes:
> > > > But this way the password ends up in the environment, which on many
> > > > systems is visible to other processes/users (via /proc or the 'ps'
> > > > command).
> > >
> > > Your *environment* is visible to other users? Geez, what a broken
> > > system ...
> >
> > Try "ps axewww" ? Doesn't work on your platform ?
> > Works on AIX, Linux?, ...
>
> Linux Debian Unstable (updated 1 week ago).
>
> For a non-root user, only her processes' environment appears.
> (and /proc/*/environ permissions are 400, the user being the process owner)
>
> For root, all processes' environment is shown.
On BSD/OS, it doesn't matter what user you are. You can see the
environment of all processes.
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