Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:33:35 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: setantae@submonkey.net (Ceri) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kill -9 -1 Message-ID: <200112212233.fBLMXZ223996@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011221222202.GA2098@rhadamanth> from "Ceri" at Dec 21, 2001 10:22:02 PM
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Hmmm --- > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:06:19PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:44:17PM +0000, Ceri wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:56:49PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > > > > > > So I typed at the bash prompt (as a normal user, not root): > > > > > > > > $kill -9 -1 > > > > > > > > And my system died. > > > > > > > > Can anyone confirm/explain this phenomena? (this is on a fairly > > > > recent -stable). > > > > > > >From the manpage for kill : > > > > > > The following pids have special meanings: > > > -1 If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise > > > broadcast to all processes belonging to the user. > > > > Thanks. I did read the manpage before writing this message and the > > above description does not explain the phenomena I have described. > > Are you sure ? > Kill 9'ing every process on the system would be reasonably expected to cause > death. But, not as a normal user. A non-root user should NOT be able to kill init. Something is wrong here. Either he was really root or there is a giant hole waiting for all to fall in. ////jerry > > Ceri > > -- > keep a mild groove on > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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