Hi,
after this change
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
The solution I see are
1.
Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
2.
suid it (bad in my view)
3.
file capabilities (can
On 4/4/12 8:32 AM, justin wrote:
1.
Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
I think that's the best option, at least for now.
2.
suid it (bad in my view)
Agreed, that'd be very bad, any crashing bug in it could become a
privilege escalation problem.
3.
file capabilities (can this be done
Il 04/04/2012 08:43, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. ha scritto:
On 4/4/12 8:32 AM, justin wrote:
1.
Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
I think that's the best option, at least for now.
2.
suid it (bad in my view)
Agreed, that'd be very bad, any crashing bug in it could become a
privilege escalation
justin schrieb:
iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
suid it (bad in my view)
I suggest to have a suid USE flag (disabled by default) so the user can
choose between the two. Maybe advertise this change in an elog
2012/4/4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org:
justin schrieb:
iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
suid it (bad in my view)
I suggest to have a suid USE flag (disabled by default) so the user can
choose
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:32:41 +0200
justin j...@gentoo.org wrote:
3.
file capabilities (can this be done with portage)
It can't. We've had discussions about caps before, and I imagine it
would get into EAPI 5 without objections if you can come up with a spec
that describes how it should work
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:32:41AM +0200, justin wrote:
Hi,
after this change
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
The solution I see are
1.
Leave it to root (Fedora
On 04/04/12 14:56, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:32:41AM +0200, justin wrote:
Hi,
after this change
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
Any suggestions how to proceed?
The solution I see are
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:32 AM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote:
2.
suid it (bad in my view)
3.
file capabilities (can this be done with portage)
iotop is a python script, so these were not really options anyway.
Unless you wrote a wrapper in C or something. :)
