Subj : Re: Setting priorities as a regular user
To   : comp.os.linux
From : adams_forum
Date : Mon Aug 30 2004 06:02 pm

Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> wrote in message news:<slrncj3o10.icn.sybrenUSE@sybren.thirdtower.com>...
> Adam enlightened us with:
> > 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!
> 
> You could make a program that is setuid root, which then sets the
> niceness level, drops to a mortal level and exec()s your program.
> 
> Sybren

Good idea!  Thanks.

But would there be a way to find out what user executed the setuid
root program, so it would know which user to run the program as?

Otherwise I could make a script that is actually used to run the
setuid root program, and pass "whoami" to it as a parameter.  But I'd
rather avoid that extra level of complexity.

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