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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: Hiding Unix processes?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.182651.13894@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Keywords: zsh hide mask processes
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- References: <1g42e5INNoac@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Dec9.173919@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> <1992Dec11.121346.24892@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:26:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.121346.24892@Princeton.EDU>, grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Robert Weiss) writes:
- - >In article <1g42e5INNoac@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, speth@cats.ucsc.edu (James Gustave) writes:
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- - > Is there a way to mask all of your running processes, similar to what the
- - > execl command can do for a single process? I don't really like having
- - > everyone be able to see what I'm doing all the time.
- - > I'm running SunOS Release 4.1.1, and I don't have root privs.
- .....
- - Don't write your own shell! Use zsh, a really fine shell combining the (IMHO)
- - best features of tcsh, and ksh. In zsh, you can hide the command-line
- - arguments like the following:
- -
- - zsh% ARGV0="Hey, stop snooping!" program
- -
- - This can be made into an alias like so:
- -
- - zsh% alias hide='ARGV0="None of your business. "'
-
- While this may work under SunOS, it does not work (afaik) under IRIX, where
- the mechanism of storing command arguments is different. No, I fear tho only
- foolproof method is:
-
- Buy your own unix system and don't give out logins to it.
-
- :-) :-) :-( Thomas
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