On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM, James Rankin<[email protected]> wrote:
> Can they kill the process if another user account started it (especially one
> higher up the food chain)?

  By default, regular users cannot kill processes owned by other
users; admins can kill any process.

  You could probabbly apply an ACL that denies admins the ability to
directly kill a process, but I expect admins would retain the right to
seize ownership and change the ACL back (same as for NTFS).  Since
people are already killing the process contrary to company wishes, I
don't see why they wouldn't proceed to changing the ACL, too.  I
suppose it might suffice if the users know *just* enough to kill a
process, but not about ACLs.

-- Ben

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