FS#5864 - PAM allows real-time scheduling to unprivileged users by default

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre renié (pir) - Sunday, 19 November 2006, 20:20 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 11:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority High
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

unprivileged users can use real-time scheduling :

$ ulimit -a
max rt priority (-r) unlimited

I've made a program that totally block the system (see file)

There is a debian's bug report (fixed, with a patch) :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388431
   bloaksystem.c (0.6 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 11:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  pam in testing
Comment by Damjan Georgievski (damjan) - Friday, 27 July 2007, 00:28 GMT
It looks to me that this has been solved in PAM 0.99.8.0

http://pam.cvs.sourceforge.net/pam/Linux-PAM/ChangeLog?view=markup

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