Re: [OT?] Re: [cobalt-users] MySql

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Nico Meijer wrote:

> Hi gsh!
> 
> > Here's an even better thought, /proc/pid/cmdline is readable by all ;0
> 
> Hmm. You wanna elaborate on that? I'm not that good with /proc. :-(
> 
> I just get a "-bash" when reading the appr. PID.

cause you are looking at your own pic, so you just see your shell..

cmdline is where the info for what px x lists comes from, it has to be
world readable, and it inclides all the command line arguments given when
starting the program, so if you put a password on the command line, anyone
who can do ps xa  or read proc can see your password ;)

Here's a cheezy way to do what ps does in a shell script...

(cd /proc;for i in */cmdline; do echo $i;cat $i;echo "";done)

[Yes, you need the () above]
Fun to play with, but ps does better cleanup ;0

gsh