On Fri, 31 May 2002, Jason Joines wrote: > Is there anyway to change the owner of a running process? I have a > kiosk machine that only runs mozilla under the ID of browser. I would > like to change the owner of the process to root once mozilla has > started so that users would not be able to kill the browser.
I'm not sure that what you're trying to do is possible. And even if it was, i think it would be extremely dangerous. For starters, i don't think having root own the process would prevent someone from killing the browser. You can't really control who does what with an X app once its on the screen & running. Also, if the browser was running as root, the person could gain access to the entire filesystem, with the ability to alter it. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
