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Re: Larvnet design discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Arnold)
Thu Aug 7 01:02:43 2008
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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:01:56 -0400
From: Kenneth Arnold <kcarnold@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> I think I will just configure inetd to run busyd as root. It's a very
> short perl script which doesn't touch the input it receives from the
> network, so I don't think it's very security-sensitive. If someone
> can come up with a robust and simple check for an active gdm session
> which can be performed as nobody, I'll revisit that.
pgrep gnome-session?
-Ken
