Re: luser beeing able to kill random root owned procs (linux 2.2.20) ?

["Ralf Dreibrodt" <ralf () dreibrodt de>]

Hi,

> while running "vi `perl -e 'print "." x 90000000'`" on
> a 2.2.20 linux kernel as a normal user, I've noticed:
>
> forsaken:~$ dmesg
> VM: killing process snmpd
> forsaken:~$ uname -rs
> Linux 2.2.20
>
> snmpd was running as root (this machine has 64MBytes of RAM)


the user is not allowed to kill a process owned by root, the user is allowed
to use all RAM (and probably swap).

you can test whether he is allowed to and what will happen, when you execute
something like this:

while true; do temp=$(echo temp$temp$temp$temp); done

bye
Ralf