pkill from user without root password
Daniel Brunner
Can someone tell me how to use the pkill command for killing the
processes of another user but without having to use the root account
directly ?
Thanks a lot in advance
Daniel
e-mail: Daniel....@bger.admin.ch
Andrei Ivanov
>
> Can someone tell me how to use the pkill command for killing the
> processes of another user but without having to use the root account
> directly ?
As with more common pair of 'ps' and 'kill', one can 'pkill' only
his own processes. Only superuser has rights to "kill" processes
of all other users as well.
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andrei
Roland Mainz
Hi !
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Daniel Brunner wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to use the pkill command for killing the
> processes of another user but without having to use the root account
> directly ?
1. Use "su root"
2. Use "su <name-of-process-owner>"
3. See "sudo"...
4. ((This creates a security leak:))
copy the pkill executable, chown the copy to root and set the suid bit...
5. Ask your administrator to do the job...
6. Shutdown/reboot the machine (on Solaris 7 sparc, the console owner is allowed
to do that - hit the power key in CDE...)
After reboot, the victims (e.g. the user processes) are gone =:-)
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Bye,
Roland
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