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		otterley on Jan 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD ... A foreign process’s environment variables are only readable if the current UID is root or is the same as the foreign process’s ID. As user joe I can’t see user andrea’s process’s envvars.

teddyh on Jan 17, 2022 [–]

All right, fair enough. But I’m not sure this was always the case on traditional Unixes, though.

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