Re: Modifying kernel so that non-root users have some root capabilities

[Andy Lutomirski]

Laughlin, Joseph V wrote:
> (not sure if this is a duplicate or not.. Apologies in advance.)
>
> I've been tasked with modifying a 2.4 kernel so that a non-root user can
> do the following:
>
> Dynamically change the priorities of processes (up and down)
> Lock processes in memory
> Can change process cpu affinity

Capabilities should do this, but they don't.  See the huge thread
on capabilities these past couple weeks.

You're probably best off with a setuid-root executable.

--Andy
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