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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: idprio/rtprio
In-Reply-To: <1099.889666284@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 11, 98 05:31:24 pm"
To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:38:08 +0100 (CET)
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According to Jordan K. Hubbard:
> > First, contrary to what the manpage says, an ordinary user can no
> > longer run idprio.
> 
> It's the man page that's wrong since this was disallowed awhile back
> after BEST Internet filed a PR noting that an ordinary user could put
> your system in very bad shape by using it.  The man page has been
> fixed, thanks.

Hmm... I just can't seem to remember how. Breif summary?

Also, is it possible to allow users to run things as idleprio with some
sysctl, or something? (I trust the users on my machine... me and my GF :)

  /Mikael

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