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Re: setting process credentials
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 20:57:49 +0200, Adam ENDRODI wrote:
> I've got an idea and I'd like to know your opinion about the
> possible caveats. I want to implement a mechanism by which
> the system administrator could alter the various properties
> like its uid, gid, resource limitations, root and current
> working directory of an already running process. I imagined
> a procfs interface (under /proc/<pid>) to achieve this.
[snap]
>
> Could you please comment my idea, so that I would know how
> realistic it is and if it is worth the effort.
It seems doable, though it's a LOT of work. Could you suggest a problem
that this would solve (and can't be reasonably solved in an easier way)?
Whether it's worth the effort really depends on what it would be used
for.
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