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Re: Solution to running opcontrol as root: msg#00052

Subject: Re: Solution to running opcontrol as root
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:51:24PM +0200, Yaakov Yaari wrote:

> The requirement to run opcontrol as a root is a known limitation of
> oprofile. Basically, we want to keep opcontrol as a root-mode command,
> while allowing user-mode clients to access this functionality.

You still can't solve the problem of /safely/ disallowing counter
settings that may kill the box. The minimum count reset values are
mostly a guess not a reliable barrier to a malicious unprivileged user.

regards
john

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