Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep

Subject: Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep
From: Olaf Kirch (okirMONAD.SWB.DE)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 16:12:07 CST

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On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0500, Mark A. Heilpern wrote:
> Maybe I'm just naive, but it's my understanding that you cannot send signals
> to a process you don't own unless you are root.

That's not true for setuid processes. You're allowed to signal a process
if _either_ the effective or the real uid match. Try running passwd in
one window, in another type killall -STOP passwd.

Olaf

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