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# 15  
Old 04-24-2009
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Originally Posted by simonsimon
GSalisbury,
I wish unix was a bit flexible.
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I hear you but I am asking the apprpriate question. This requirement could be generic for any utility not just ps.
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Unix and GNU/Linux are extremely flexible. There are a many many ways of achieving what you want from finegrained control using SELinux and ACLs to simple methods such as aliasing. Depends on what you want to achieve and your level of expertise.
# 16  
Old 04-26-2009
Fpmurphy,
Thank you . You mentioned about ACLS and SELINUX .Can you please point me to some Documentation. So that I can lean how to fish.
I am a DBA by profession, So I have some knowledge of UNIX but not to an expert level.
I need to do it on HPUX but I am open to learn how it may be done on LINUX.

BTW also Thank you all for responding to this thread. Such useful tips and responses and knowledge sharing is soo important. This is indeed a great forum.
# 17  
Old 05-14-2009
The simplest method is to use alias for ps. Then lock down profile.

This should give you info on SeLinux and ACL
Let me google that for you



# 18  
Old 05-19-2009
forbid it for this particular user via acl set to this command

Rgds
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