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Subject: Re: Destroying arguments
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Date: Mon, 25-May-87 19:07:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 25 19:07:50 1987
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In article <199@celerity.UUCP> jjw@celerity.UUCP (Jim (JJ) Whelan) writes:
>Anyone with a Berkeley based system should check out what happens with
>	"ps axww"

If you _really_ want secure (i.e., unreadable) arguments then fill up your
environment with _lots_ of junk.  Twenty-five or so environment variables set
to about 70 characters each will keep 'w' and 'ps' from displaying them, even
with ps axwwwwwww.

This works on BSD systems, although different implementations might "require"
you to have much more in your environment.

I don't think it works on SysV.

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Theodore Hope
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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