I’m running Debian. I want users to be unable to see my processes when they type ‘ps aux’. A web search wasn’t clear enough on how to do that, but it seems to be possible. How do I do that?
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I’m running Debian. I want users to be unable to see my processes when they type ‘ps aux’. A web search wasn’t clear enough on how to do that, but it seems to be possible. How do I do that?
There are no simple ways, other than fancy things like tweaking the kernel code or the ps command code, or things like trying to use an innocent-looking name for the process. See:
https://superuser.com/questions/199044/is-it-possible-to-hide-a-process-from-the-listing-of-ps-or-top-on-linux
There are no questions of users or groups: everyone can see everyone’s processes.