[PLUG] Allow Users to Kill Process

Tom Sharples tsharples at qorvus.com
Thu Jan 24 06:57:38 UTC 2008


Not if written and implemented properly :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristian Erik Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com>
To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help,civil and on-topic" 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Allow Users to Kill Process


> On Jan 23, 2008 8:20 PM, Tom Sharples <tsharples at qorvus.com> wrote:
>> Why not write two scripts: one that takes your user's input and copies it 
>> to
>> a file /tmp/process_to_be_killed, and a second (with root privileges) 
>> that
>> runs as a cronjob every minute or so, looks at the contents, if any, of
>> /tmp/process_to_be_killed, and kills those processes? You can get a 
>> little
>> more sophisticated and have said cronjob look first at a list of jobs 
>> that
>> are not permitted be killed (maintained by you), prior to taking action.
>
> Because that sounds like a temporary file race condition waiting to happen 
> :-)
> -- 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen
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