Wiktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > furthermore, on many systems root may want to make users able to run > some program with lowered nice, but not from root account and without > having to know the root password... i've found a way to do this using > shell scripts combined with suid bit and strange fils ownerships, but it > is absolute diseaster.
You want su1, or maybe sudo. > so i thought that it would be nice to add an attribute to file > (changable only for root) that would modify nice value of process when > it starts. if there is one byte free in ext2/3 file metadata, maybe it > could be used for that? i think that it woundn't be more dangerous than > setuid bit. Remember: xmms might be configured to spawn the shell plugin. I guess there should be a maximum renice value ulimit instead, which would allow running allmost any user task on a higher nice level, except the important stuff, with the additional benefit of being able to temporarily renice some tasks until the more important work is done. I remember something similar being discussed for realtime tasks, but I don't remember the outcome. - 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/