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Author: Jack L. Frost
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To: Boruch Baum
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Another multi-user issue
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 08:17:32PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> Please consider setting the default /etc/fstab to include:
>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults,hidepid=2

>
> This has the effect of keeping the specific activities, process ids,
> command lines and parameters of a user from other users.


I've been using hidepid=2 as a default in my toy distro and haven't found a
usecase where that would be a bad default. So unless there are common enough
usecases where users need to see others' processes, I agree.