Re: PATCH: drivers/char/vt.c allows virtually locking up nonnetworked machine

2001-06-30 Thread Guest section DW
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:10:40PM +0200, Rudolf Polzer wrote: > There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a > > bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done > > which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never > on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed t

PATCH: drivers/char/vt.c allows virtually locking up nonnetworked machine

2001-06-30 Thread Rudolf Polzer
There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed the kernel source code so that only the superuser may change terminals. Sin