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 <title>Hiding process information</title>
 <para>
  Setting
<programlisting>
<xref linkend="opt-security.hideProcessInformation"/> = true;
</programlisting>
  ensures that access to process information is restricted to the owning user. This implies, among other things, that command-line arguments remain private. Unless your deployment relies on unprivileged users being able to inspect the process information of other users, this option should be safe to enable.
 </para>
 <para>
  Members of the <literal>proc</literal> group are exempt from process information hiding.
 </para>
 <para>
  To allow a service <replaceable>foo</replaceable> to run without process information hiding, set
<programlisting>
<link linkend="opt-systemd.services._name_.serviceConfig">systemd.services.<replaceable>foo</replaceable>.serviceConfig</link>.SupplementaryGroups = [ "proc" ];
</programlisting>
 </para>
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