Re: kill -9 again
Posted in 1994
Hugh Grierson — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
In article <2prtid$3e8@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> villy@collinscomp.com writes: >Well, this sounds more like a system security issue. Being that the >tbinit process is owned by 'informix', not just anybody should be able to >send a kill -9 and have any affect. They won't have the authorization to >pull it off. You're right there. But the original query was about killing a user's own sqlturbo process, which usually runs with real-uid set to the invoking user's uid so the user can kill it. See my other post for one way of changing that. -- Hugh Grierson hugh@fujitsu.co.nz 20C, light cloud cover