Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:09:05 +0200
From: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1
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Daniel Phillips, Mon, Jul 07, 2003 14:24:06 +0200:
> > Alternatively, how about using PAM to grant the CAP_SYS_NICE capability to
> > known interactive users that require it. Presumably the number of users
> > that require it is very small (in the case of the music player, only one)
> > so it wouldn't be a major security issue.
> 
> And set up distros to grant it by default.  Yes.
> 
> The problem I see is that it lets user space priorities invade the range of 
> priorities used by root processes.  What's really needed is a range of 
> negative priorities available to normal users that are not normally used by 
> root.
> 
> In retrospect, the idea of renicing all the applications but the
> realtime one  doesn't work, because it doesn't take care of
> applications started afterwards. 
> 

start login niced to -X ?

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