Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:33:12 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, chrisw@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Subject: Re: disable-cap-mlock
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* Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> > just curious, how does this work through 'su'? Does su check
> > logincap.conf too?
> 
> I guess so.

Or let pam_cap do it so you don't have to modify all the apps just the pam
confs.

> Well you have a local short-term solution...
> 
> One thing I was wondering was whether /proc/sys/vm/disable_cap_mlock should
> hold a GID rather than a boolean.  So you do
> 
> 	echo groupof oracle > /proc/sys/vm/disable_cap_mlock

Heh, was just thinking the same.

thanks,
-chris
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