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From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
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Subject: normal users calling setpriority(2)
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Is it possible via sysctl or some other method to allow non-superusers 
to set any priority they want.   The specific question is I often want 
to set idprio 31 on stuff but don't want to switch to root to do it (I 
am the only user on the machine).