Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:09:05 +0200 | From | Alex Riesen <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.74-mm1 |
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Daniel Phillips, Mon, Jul 07, 2003 14:24:06 +0200: > > Alternatively, how about using PAM to grant the CAP_SYS_NICE capability to > > known interactive users that require it. Presumably the number of users > > that require it is very small (in the case of the music player, only one) > > so it wouldn't be a major security issue. > > And set up distros to grant it by default. Yes. > > The problem I see is that it lets user space priorities invade the range of > priorities used by root processes. What's really needed is a range of > negative priorities available to normal users that are not normally used by > root. > > In retrospect, the idea of renicing all the applications but the > realtime one doesn't work, because it doesn't take care of > applications started afterwards. >
start login niced to -X ?
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