Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:08:32 +0100 (BST) |
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> The X server can avoid even kill -9 from a normal user. As it stands, > it doesn't do that, and I personally think it's a bug in X. But it's > not a kernel problem - X could make sure (by doing a "setuid(0)" to > renounce all use privileges) that nobody can kill it but root.
Unfortunately X is about 1Mbyte of code. Running X as root would be teetering on insanity. Now setuid(0); setuid(somerandomxuid) and I'll listen
However you still have to answer the other questions - such as how do we implement SAK properly
Alan
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