Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:40:04 -0700 (PDT) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/3837: new feature for rtprio Message-ID: <199706170740.AAA00720@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/3837; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: luigi@iet.unipi.it Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/3837: new feature for rtprio Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:33:09 +0200 As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > This patch allows users listed in /etc/rtprio.conf to set > realtime priorities for processes. Useful to let non-root > users burn CDs. I also include the small manpage change. Sorry to take you down on this, but i don't like it. If we start to create /etc/foo.conf for every foo that requires root privileges, we won't ever come to an end. Your problem is exactly what things like suidperl or sudo have been made for. This has the additional advantage that you don't need to trust some user more than the other, but only need to trust some application to not abuse the feature. (Also see my other mail, rtprio is probably not needed for CD-Rs at all.) What do other people think? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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