Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-mm1 | | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | | Date | Mon, 10 May 2004 18:27:35 -0400 | |
On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:02:03 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> > These two just introduced a subtile behaviour change during stable series,
> > possibly (not likely) leading to DoS opportunities from applications running
> > as gid 0.> > mlock_group is likely to go away.> > Is an unprivileged user likely to have gid 0? Easy enough to fix, anyway.
Equally important, is gid 0 (with its other possible overloadings) something that we
want to put on a user just because they have a need for mlock??
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