Re: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Paul Wagland wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:18, Joachim B Haga wrote:
> 
>>Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>It seems to me that much of this could be solved if the user *were*
>>>>allowed to lower nice values (down to 0).
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>>to 10 (normal) to 20. Negative values could still be root-only.  So
>>>>why shouldn't this be possible? Because a greedy user in a
>>
>> 
>>
>>>More importantly it would allow ordinary users to override root's
>>>settings e.g. if (for whatever reason) the sysadmin decided to
> 
> 
>>And it's not a *security* concern, as long as the lower values are
>>still reserved.
>>
>>I would say the benefit is very small (I mean: who has ever relied on
>>it?) compared to the difficulties created for users.
> 
> 
> Under Linux, I can't say, but certainly on my old school machine (~10
> years ago) all student accounts would run at +5, all staff accounts
> would run at +0. This was handled by the login process, so re-logging in
> would not help you at all....

I think you can do this with pam or login under linux.  I know I did 
something like this, but since most of my users were samba users, it 
wasn't very useful at the time