Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:13:33 -0400 (EDT) | From | Tyson D Sawyer <> | Subject | Re: crashme crashes 2.0.20 with guarantee :-( |
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> On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:25:26 EDT, "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > Aieee, you ran crashme as root and it learned how to load a kernel > > module! > > But this should not result in kernel panic. Ancient unixish > design requires running many programs with root privileges, and bugs > in them should not crash the system.
I assure you that a root privileged program can crash _ANY_ Unix OS. Remember that root can access any hardware without restriction. This includes timers, interrupts, IO ports, memory, all kinds of stuff. There is typically a bit of a procedure to do it, but it is allowed.
> Besides, my system crashes with crashme running from non- > privileged user account...
That is a legitimate complaint and completely different from running crashme as root.
> -- > Best regards, -- Boris.
Cheers! Ty
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