In my experience these process accounting and quota systems are
extremely cludgy and create a very large overhead for the administrators
and are generally not worth the effort. I would suggest a wrapper script
or even a simple company policy detailing what hours certain programs
can be run, or
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> abusername hardnproc 2
This limit may need to be higher. Some quick poking around on my system
shows that a process limit lower than about 10-15 *above* the desired
amount will prevent things from running properly. I can't se
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the
> users often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU
> and Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic
The following additions to /etc/secu
> Yes, it's a program that was wrriten and compiled by the user. I put a
> priority for this user in file /etc/security/limits.conf. I wonder is there
> is a way to put a quota for CPU % a user is allowed. The only thing that I
> saw that can be set there is Max CPU Time. Or is that the same thi
On Thursday October 31 2002 11:42 am, Andrew MacKenzie wrote:
> > I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users
> > often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and
> > Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question
> > is, h
> I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users
> often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and Memory
> that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question is, how do I
> prevent him to run that program without revoking his user a
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>>From: Red Hat [mailto:redhat@;syrrx.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:05 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: How to ban someone from running a program
>>
>>
>>
>>You could change the ownership to root (or any ot
Change the ownership (user and group) to something other than that user,
and only grant execute permissions to the user/group which then owns that
app.
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users
> oft
-Original Message-
From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:reubendb@;innovativethought.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to ban someone from running a program
Hi all,
I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the
users
oft
Hi all,
I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users
often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and Memory
that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question is, how do I
prevent him to run that program without revoking his user
Edward Dekkers wrote:
>
> Now I'm lost - he didn't mean sudo then?
>
> Sorry, I remember a hell of a lot of discussion about sudo when I first
> started.
>
If you are talking about the start of this thread I don't think so. I
belive he was asking about setting the suid bit on the permissions
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Shaun Donovan wrote:
> I have tried this and tested it by writing a script that just runs a
> "whoami", but when I run it, it does not run as the other user. I have
> tried setting the setuid bit as well as the setgid, but to no avail.
> What do you mean when you say that onl
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael Burger wrote:
> I believe the program also needs to be "chmod o+s" to run
> setuid...but I could be wrong.
alas, you are.
setuid: chmod u+s files ...
setgid: chmod g+s files ...
sticky bit: chmod +t directories ...
rday
--
Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Tech
Now I'm lost - he didn't mean sudo then?
Sorry, I remember a hell of a lot of discussion about sudo when I first
started.
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Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd.
822 Rowley Road
Oakford W.A. 6121
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>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:23 AM
>Subject: Re: running a program as root
>
>
>> you're talking about setuid root, which you must be VERY careful with.
>> Only certain programs are tollerant of this.
>>
>> chown root file
>>
>> or
&g
nt of
this?
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From: Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: running a program as root
> you're talking about setuid root, which you must be VERY careful with.
> Only certa
thanks man!
From: "Statux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: running a program as root
> you're talking about setuid root, which you must be VERY careful with.
>
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Robert Reyes wrote:
>
> > hey guys!
> > i know i have done this but seem to forgot how to do it again. how can i
> > change a property of a program so that when it is used by other users, it
> > will run as root. for example smbmount, when us
hey guys!
i know i have done this but seem to forgot how to do it again. how can i
change a property of a program so that when it is used by other users, it
will run as root. for example smbmount, when users other than root runs it,
it says not permitted, how do i remove this permission thing?
tha
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Robert Reyes wrote:
> hey guys!
> i know i have done this but seem to forgot how to do it again. how can i
> change a property of a program so that when it is used by other users, it
> will run as root. for example smbmount, when users other than root runs it,
> it says not p
you're talking about setuid root, which you must be VERY careful with.
Only certain programs are tollerant of this.
chown root file
or
chown root:root file <--to set the group too, etc, you should know this
part
then:
chmod 4755 file
or something to that effect.
remember how to calculate pe
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: running a program
>
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> At 14:47 5/3/98 -0400, Gary Neff wrote:
> >I am such a newbie and I am sorry for being stupid I know dos but am lost
> in
> >linux. I have decompressed a f
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At 14:47 5/3/98 -0400, Gary Neff wrote:
>I am such a newbie and I am sorry for being stupid I know dos but am lost
in
>linux. I have decompressed a file that was given to me in a directory
>/usr/temp I used tar and several directories were formed. I then found a
Try going into that directory and type ./Install
The ./ tells it to run the program Install that's in the current working
directory. It has to do with setting up your path. DOS has the current
working directory in your path, Linux doesn't (it's a security measure).
It could also be that the fi
I am such a newbie and I am sorry for being stupid I know dos but am lost in
linux. I have decompressed a file that was given to me in a directory
/usr/temp I used tar and several directories were formed. I then found a
file Install and an install directory I type "Install" and nothing I know
this
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