Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 May 2003 20:06:24 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support |
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> > ? If he has same uid as you *and* you > > have >=1 process running, what prevents > > him from gdb attach <that process>, > > and force it to do whatever he needs > > by forcing syscall? > > Pavel > > That's a good point, and perhaps it should be an option to not allow > ptrace or other potentially dangerous operations between processes in > different pags. But leave that optional, as it might still be useful - > for example, logging in and diagnosing a daemon running in a separate > pag. > > It's not clear if this would be best as a per-pag flag or a global one > though.
Well, at that point you are getting quite far away from unix.... And this decision is pretty fundamental.
> > -- Nathan > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneul@umr.edu > University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 > Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
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