Permissions on ps

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:51:35PM -0500, Midnight Oil wrote:
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>    I'm having difficulty understanding just how it is a regular
> with simple priviliges is able to run ps.
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> ps accesses /dev/kmem to get a process list.

No, it uses sysctl.

Kris
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