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Re: setuid root programs in hurd dist
From: |
James Morrison |
Subject: |
Re: setuid root programs in hurd dist |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:15:32 -0700 (PDT) |
--- "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
>
> > ids -- Does pid2task to query arbitrary processes auth ports.
> > Seems like a questionable need. If that info should be public,
> > we could just have the proc server publish the id lists it got
> > in its auth transactions (which it doesn't save now).
> > ps -- Needs task ports to query some kinds of info.
> > w -- I'm not sure that it really needs it.
>
> For all of these, I think the right thing is to extend the proc
> server. The point of proc_getprocinfo is to provide "whatever ps
> needs".
>
vmstat, and pptop need to be suid'd to be get the pager information.
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James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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