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		joosters on June 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I dislike systemd Absolutely. It's also more secure this way, since you aren't putting the passphrase in a readable-by-any-user command line argument.

hhw on June 15, 2015 [–]

FYI, it's trivial to hide processes from other users on BSD with a sysctl variable.

icebraining on June 15, 2015 | [–]

I think that's just in FreeBSD, not in others like OpenBSD.

Linux has copied that feature a few years ago, called it "hidepid".

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