Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff

From: David Wagner (daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 17:02:09 EST


>More interestingly, it changes the operation of SAK in two ways:
>(a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0.

I think this is bad for security.

(I assume you meant euid 0, not ruid 0. Using the real uid
for access control decisions is a very odd thing to do.)
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