Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:25:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980429171901.6635B-100000@james.hwcn.org> In-Reply-To: <19980429073826.29484@mcs.net>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > > We should distinguish between user processes and root processes > > somehow, too. A user shouldn't be able to make root's processes die > > unless the machine is explictly configured for that to be possible > > Simple. sysctl variable for whether or not a user process can set SIG_HOLD. That seems rather a rather blunt method. Some important processes might be run non-root for security, for example. How reasonable would it be to add something to login.conf(5)? -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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