From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 8 3:13:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from alfik.ms.mff.cuni.cz (alfik.ms.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.19.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C351C14CE7 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 03:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mencl@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz) Received: from nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz by alfik.ms.mff.cuni.cz; (8.8.8/v1.00/19990210.0854) id MAA12401; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:13:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (mencl@localhost) by nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA04611 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:12:57 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:12:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Q: Why is idprio only for root Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why is the idprio(1) command available only to the superuser? What where the reasons? It just seems to me that it's no evil to let users run some computations on the idle priority.... when they want to load the system less then with a nice(1). Vlada Mencl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message