Rob Day responded:

>Well, in theory, you could patch the ps program...  redo some of the
>code so that it ONLY allows the process owned by the user to be
>displayed...  then move the original ps to psall or something, change
>perms on psall to be executable only by root....
>but, that would nto stop joe-blow user from installing their own ps - it
>is a non-privelaged app that can be run by any user from anywhere...they
>could just install ps in their home and run it there...
>
>  My 2c in this topic...

I totally agree.  I left out recompiling the code with personal changes,
since not everyone can modify code.  Plus, what you pointed out.

In other words, live with it.

MB
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