Re: Linux-2.0.34 & crashme

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Tue, 26 May 1998 08:21:44 +0100


>Well, I tried it both as root and as unprivileged user,
>and guess what: Linux-2.0.34pre16 locked solid in both
>cases after just about 10 minutes... :-(

Running crashme as root is dangerous. You can kill the machine as root
yourself, and crashme can do it too if it manages to make the right system
calls.

>I think I remember someone was claiming Linux is immune
>against these "crashme" programs? It's _very_ bad a normal,

DaveM used to use it to check the SPARC port on a regular basis. Don't know
if he still does.

p.

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