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by msm23 3849 days ago
Running

  ps auxwwe
on Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix-en will show all processes for all users with their complete environment.

Environment variables should not be used to share secrets.
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billhathaway 3849 days ago
Testing on Linux, if ran as root it does, but if you are running ps auxwwe as normal user, it is only showing env variables for that user.
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jlgaddis 3849 days ago
On FreeBSD, at least, the ability to see processes belonging to other {g,u}id's can be turned off via a sysctl.
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