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- From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
- Subject: Re: disable 'w' command
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:20:01 GMT
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- In article <10035@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tawfig@.cs.pitt.edu.cs.pitt.edu (& Alrabiah) writes:
- >Any one can use 'w' command to find out what you are working on.
- >So is there any way to stop people from finding out what I am working on ?
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- "w" is easy to hide from if you want to... just spawn a process and work
- within it... For instance, get "screen 3.1" from the anonymous ftp...
- When people do "w username" they just see "screen", but none of your
- processes inside of screen... Or, another option is to get "ile", an
- interactive line editor for csh.
- But, realize you'r still a sitting duck for "ps auxgw", and always
- will be, unless you rename every command to something else... Sorry,
- UNIX is an open system - expect nothing more or less.
- steve
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