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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Killing processes Date: 28 May 1995 21:55:56 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3qarhc$f92@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dear All! Is it possible (must be, then how?) to set permitions so that people from specified group will be able to kill process started by root (or another user)? Example: file netdown, says: kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` (Just that one line) When non-root executes it, the result is : kill: <pid> : Operation not permitted I tried permissions [0-7]755 on it with no success. I must be missing something really stupid )-: Thank you, -mi -- The following two lines are NOT related to each other! (-: "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."