Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:47:55 -0800 From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1043516678.f6609c@mired.org>, <lattera@softhome.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: too many kill()'s Message-ID: <BA51764B.19C50%pscott@skycoast.us> In-Reply-To: <15916.13702.206604.936084@guru.mired.org>
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> It happens because the real parent is gone. That means that init > becomes the parent. But you should not be able to kill process 1 except as root. I haven't tried the code, but if a normal user can bring you to single user mode, that's a serious security flaw. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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