Re: set-uid root files in bin/

On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Don't reset the SUID root permissions on sqlturbo -- you will get > failures when the user's need to sort huge files because of ulimit > problems. I do not know why OnLine needs mkdbsdir -- I think that > could probably be eliminated altogether, but I don't know for sure. > tbmonitor and tbspaces should be left SUID root. So should the > sgidsh program -- it forcibly sets the correct real UID and GID > values for a user when a stored procedure runs something with the > SYSTEM statement. On that note....is there a way to stop users from being able to kill an SQLTURBO process that has THEIR name on it? It sort of leaves our DATABASE hanging out in the wind if someone gets a little trigger happy with the KILL statement :(