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Re: Can a driver give root privileges to a process?



On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 01:13, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Would it be possible for the driver to give root privileges to the 
> process, at least temporarily, so that the library can call sys_mlock() 
> instead?  Obviously, there would be security issues with this, but let's 
> ignore that for the moment.

Yes it is possible. The moment you do though your driver will end up on
bugtraq pretty fast. I can't believe "lets ignore security"!

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