On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:00:07 -0600, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:55, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > Except that it's conceivable that someone would execute something > > outside of a shell, using ssh or something similar. I'd be interested > > in hearing other ideas. It seems like this is something that should > > be part of the various security services. A non-root user can't give > > his processes higher priorities, for instance, so apparently there's > > something limiting the highest priority a user can have. This same > > mechanism ought to be able to so something her. > > Since niced_bash is the login shell, there is no way to get around it. > It is the first thing ssh executes when you log in. Of course you are > correct in stating that a user can arbitrarily bump his priority back up > to normal with the renice command.
Okay, ssh is a bad example, rsh would have been better as it does not execute a shell (IIRC) just the command itself. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
