Re: (pspace,pid) vs true pid virtualization

From: Kirill Korotaev
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 05:24:24 EST


this is mandatory, as it is required to kill any process
from the host (admin) context, without entering the pid
space (which would lead to all kind of security issues)


Giving admin processes the ability to enter pid spaces seems like it
solves an entire class of problems, right?. Could you explain a bit
what kinds of security issues it introduces?
Enter is not always possible.
For example when you have exhausted your resources in VPS.
(e.g. hit process limit inside).
And you can't make enter without resource limitations, since it will be a security hole then.

Kirill

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