On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0500, Mark A. Heilpern wrote: > Maybe I'm just naive, but it's my understanding that you cannot send signals > to a process you don't own unless you are root. That's not true for setuid processes. You're allowed to signal a process if _either_ the effective or the real uid match. Try running passwd in one window, in another type killall -STOP passwd. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play okirat_private | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax okirat_private +-------------------- Why Not?! ----------------------- UNIX, n.: Spanish manufacturer of fire extinguishers.
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