Subj : Re: Setting priorities as a regular user
To   : comp.os.linux
From : noone
Date : Sun Aug 29 2004 02:06 am

adams_forum@yahoo.ca (Adam) tried to express:
> Is it possible to allow a specific user to be allowed to create
> processes with any priority (niceness)?  After all, I trust myself not
> to hog the CPU!
> 
> Making the "nice" program sudo is not good because then the command it
> runs executes as root, which is a security problem and sometimes gives
> incorrect results.

non-root lusers can lower the priority of a process they own but they
cannot increase it beyond the limit of the original parent, IIRC.

The only thing I can suggest is to write either a wrapper script that
runs suid root or a C program to do what you desire.

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