Hello I'm preparing a talk about Hurd which I will give for a seminar. During my prepartions I ask myself some simple question and most of them I could easily solve reading the mailling archives. But there is one question or problem I couldn't solve yet. It's about resource management. At the moment there is no way to set resource limits and usage, rigth? So any malicious process could finish off a Hurd box by eating up all memory for example. But I guess this can be implemented.
Another question about resource management is what to do with priviliged ports. For example for booting a neighbor Hurd with 'boot' you need root rights to do it, because of some fiddling around priviliged ports. Or what about access devices provided by the kernel like /dev/eth0. You also need root rights to attach a translator on this device. As I understand the goals of the Hurd project there shouldn't be unacessary restriction from the system on users. But if any users is allowed to attach his/her own translator to network device than there is a security issue, right? Of course you can say the network should be secured by prober protocols like ssh instead of telnet. But still, a user can analize network traffic in this case. wagi _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
