[13231] in bugtraq
Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Kirch)
Wed Jan 5 12:35:14 2000
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:12:07 +0100
Reply-To: Olaf Kirch <okir@MONAD.SWB.DE>
From: Olaf Kirch <okir@MONAD.SWB.DE>
X-To: "Mark A. Heilpern" <heilpern@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000103173034.00a3c8f0@mail.mindspring.com>; from
heilpern@MINDSPRING.COM on Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0500
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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