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Re: What are best practices wrt passwords?

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On 2024-10-16 09:50:41 -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> > On Oct 16, 2024, at 09:47, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
> > permissive about this, if memory serves.  On a Linux box it seems
> > to work for processes owned by yourself even if you're not superuser.
> 
> I just tried it on an (admittedly kind of old) Ubuntu system and MacOS
> 14, and it looks like shows everything owned by everyone, even from a
> non-sudoer user.

On Linux, unprivileged users can only see the environment of their own
processes since a *very* long time ago. Possibly even before Ubuntu even
existed. So I'm somewhat sceptical about that. Some other Unixes were
more permissive. I don't know what camp MacOS falls into.

        hp

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