DominicBreuker/pspy

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

pspy is a command line tool that snoops on Linux processes without root permissions by combining procfs scans with inotify watchers to catch short-lived processes. It reveals commands run by other users, such as cron jobs, making it popular for CTF enumeration and privilege escalation discovery.

Use cases

• monitor linux processes without root
• find cron jobs running on a server
• enumerate a ctf box for privesc opportunities
• catch short-lived processes other users run
• demonstrate why passing secrets as cli arguments is unsafe
• discover scheduled tasks during pentesting

When to choose

• you need unprivileged visibility into other users' processes on linux
• you are doing ctf or pentest privilege escalation enumeration
• you want a static binary that runs anywhere without dependencies

When to avoid

• you need root-level process auditing or syscall tracing (use auditd or strace)
• you are on a non-linux platform
• you need persistent monitoring with alerting rather than ad-hoc snooping

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

monitoring security cli security penetration-testing operating-systems cli privesc ctf process-monitoring procfs inotify pentesting enumeration command-line linux

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