Re: setuid root programs in hurd dist

[James Morrison]

--- "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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