On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, 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 the kernel source code > so that only the superuser may change terminals. Ok, lemme see if I got this right. What exactly do you mean by 'a normal user' or a 'nonnetworked machine'. If the machine is non-networked, then it must be sort of single user. Oh yea, and if someone logs on from your console, smack them and don't patch the kernel. Oh yeah, I can imagine a few situations in which this would be necessary. But if someone you don't trust logs on from your (non-networked) console and has time to play with it, you're screwed anyway. Dan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
