inspect-a-process-environment

# inspect-a-process-environment ## When to use - Use on an authorized process or safe reproduction. - Never print complete secrets, credentials, tokens, or unrelated personal values. ## Preconditions - Record process identity, owner, command, version, start time, host, container, and expected configuration sources. ## Procedure 1. Define the specific variables and runtime properties needed. 2. Inspect through the least-privileged authorized mechanism. 3. Redact values while preserving presence, source, length class, or safe hash where useful. 4. Compare inherited, file, orchestrator, shell, and application-resolved configuration. 5. Check working directory, user, groups, locale, time zone, path, limits, mounts, and namespaces. 6. Record discrepancies without modifying the live process. ## Failure plan - If access would expose broader secrets, reproduce safely or ask an authorized operator for bounded evidence. ## Worked example A service inherits a staging endpoint from its supervisor despite a correct application file. ## Done - A process-environment report records bounded configuration sources, runtime properties, discrepancies, and redactions - Authorization, secret, inheritance, container, locale, path, limit, and no-mutation checks verify inspection