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Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep
From: okir () MONAD SWB DE (Olaf Kirch)
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:12:07 +0100
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0500, Mark A. Heilpern wrote:
Maybe I'm just naive, but it's my understanding that you cannot send signals to a process you don't own unless you are root.
That's not true for setuid processes. You're allowed to signal a process if _either_ the effective or the real uid match. Try running passwd in one window, in another type killall -STOP passwd. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play okir () monad swb de | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax okir () caldera de +-------------------- Why Not?! ----------------------- UNIX, n.: Spanish manufacturer of fire extinguishers.
Current thread:
- Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Olaf Kirch (Jan 03)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Mark A. Heilpern (Jan 03)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Casper Dik (Jan 04)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Olaf Kirch (Jan 04)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Henrik Nordstrom (Jan 04)
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- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Goetz Babin-Ebell (Jan 04)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep pedward () WEBCOM COM (Jan 04)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Christos Zoulas (Jan 04)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Mikael Olsson (Jan 05)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Marc Heuse (Jan 05)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Wietse Venema (Jan 04)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Pavel Machek (Jan 04)
- Security problem with Solstice Backup/Legato Networker recover command Chris Siebenmann (Jan 04)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep Mark A. Heilpern (Jan 03)