On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:04:27AM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > > > > Again, this isn't just work-arounds around broken programs. It's a > > security thing. It's privileged code (logind, PID 1) that enforces a > > clear life-cycle on unprivileged programs. > > > > Any scheme that relies on unprivileged programs "being nice" doesn't > > fix the inherent security problem: after logout a user should not be > > able consume further runtime resources on the system, regardless if he > > does that because of a bug or on purpose. > > > > Lennart > > > That's your opinion, and while many sysadmins may share it, many will not. > Having this as an optional security feature would be fantastic. Enforcing > it by default on every user many of which use tmux, screen, nohup, and & to > persist long running processes for daily work, is not something to do just > because you think it is what people should do.
Just a little perspective – this isn't a new option. KillUserProcesses functionality seems to be added by commit 202630822f52e06dce8404633407329c38099278 Date: Mon May 23 23:55:06 2011 +0200 Five years ago, so basically from day one. We have this optional security feature – fantastic! Also, the concept of a ”session” isn't anything new, it's core UNIX concept (setsid() enyone?) I think that programs needing special treatment should use operating system's facilities to communicate that. So tmux, screen, nohup should really open a new session. It's unfortunate that tmux author is hostile against that, but maybe a clean, compile-time optional patch would persuade him? Anyway, I think some examples of ”how to inform systemd I'm a special program not to reap” would be welcome. Does it need to be done through D-Bus interaction with logind? Is using PAM sufficient/required? (Nb. screen already uses PAM for some functionality). -- Tomasz Torcz There exists no separation between gods and men: xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl one blends softly casual into the other. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
