Hello Mike! At Thursday 24 July 2003 22:50 Mike Mestnik wrote:
> I was hoping there was an easy unix(debian,posix) way of doing this. > Running processes unniced as > a normal user. AFAIN I need to be suid0 for this, but I can't find > any examples in yahoo. > > The problem is that I'm using ANDeamon that puts gkrellm at > 15(nice:), this is what I like. What > I don't like is an exec xmms from the niced gkrellm. This causes > xmms to be unusable(as exec > keeps the nice), it must be not nice and RTS even. A nice value of > 0 is needed for xmms ALL WAYS. > Thankfully you also need to be in group audio to use xmms, so I > don't mind uses in that group to > initially run xmms suid0. > > Problem 1: I can't just use a shell script suid0 to renice and drop > privs. I'm told this is wrong, I have no reason to question this. > Problem 2: There is no util currently available that I know of that > deals with this. su, nice, > renice, and the like don't touch it. Non of them have a config like > sudo saying who and when can nice what. > Problem 3: I could not find any example of sudo doing this. > > Caveats: I only wont to be nice 0, that's all. You could setup sudo to allow this and only this type of invocation: renice 0 -p $(pidof xmms) and run it after starting xmms. See the man pages for further info. HTH, Flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
