Re: Fw: Anonymous Qmail Denial of Service

[Peter van Dijk]

On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 10:30:39AM -0500, Sam wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> 
> > > If you started it, yes. Nothing has changed. Otherwise, you couldn't ctrl-C
> > > out of anything SUID.. that would be bad. On the other hand, not allowing
> > > users to send signal to those processes has a lot of advantages too.. like
> > > security.
> > 
> > So then what is going to happen, if under X, you su to root, and then quit X?
> 
> When X shuts down, the su shell will get an end-of-file indication on
> standard input.
> 
> It appears that certain dumb shell may tell you 'you must use exit to
> logout' when you manually CTRL-D them, but I think there's a way to tell
> them that there's a real EOF condition.

SIGHUP?

Greetz, Peter.
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