From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
To: "Laughlin, Joseph V" <Joseph.V.Laughlin@boeing.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modifying kernel so that non-root users have some root capabilities
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:43:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B28896.1000606@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.nbdv424.kmij3i@ifi.uio.no>
Laughlin, Joseph V wrote:
> (not sure if this is a duplicate or not.. Apologies in advance.)
>
> I've been tasked with modifying a 2.4 kernel so that a non-root user can
> do the following:
>
> Dynamically change the priorities of processes (up and down)
> Lock processes in memory
> Can change process cpu affinity
Capabilities should do this, but they don't. See the huge thread
on capabilities these past couple weeks.
You're probably best off with a setuid-root executable.
--Andy
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[not found] <fa.nbdv424.kmij3i@ifi.uio.no>
2004-05-24 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2004-05-25 23:43 Modifying kernel so that non-root users have some root capabilities Roger Larsson
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2004-05-25 19:06 Laughlin, Joseph V
2004-05-25 21:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-24 23:41 Laughlin, Joseph V
2004-05-24 23:49 ` Chris Wright
2004-05-24 22:21 Laughlin, Joseph V
2004-05-24 23:24 ` Steve Youngs
2004-05-24 23:29 ` Neale Banks
2004-05-25 11:28 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-25 18:14 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-25 14:57 ` David T Hollis
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