On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> I was trying to control some applications that start as root and soon after
> are drop privileges to their own user, but looks like I am not very
> successful.
>
> To see if it was possible to do so, I tested with httpd for example, but
> searching on marc, I came across a posting from Henning on a different subject
> that however make me wonder what's the proper way to do it in that case?
>
> If I take the httpd example, the quote goes as follow:
>
> "you are mistaken. apache starts as root and drops privileges to
> www:www, that does not mean it inherits the resource limits from that
> login class."
>
> So, I get it to mean that you can't use the login.conf to actually control
> their resources. So, this bear the question then as to what other alternative
> can you use, if any?
su -m -c login_class command
-Otto
