On mar., 2010-05-04 at 02:25 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > As security problems go, being able to DOS a system by killing targeted > processes, slowly, is not very bad. After all, it could be fork bombed > or OOMed just as effectively. Security aside, there's an overall correctness > issue: There's the chance that a daemon will unexpectly die, and its PID > be reused by an unrelated process, which is later incorrectly stopped. And you usually need root access for invoke-rc.d or /etc/init.d scripts (unless you have some kind of specific sudo permissions for that). So you might be able to kill other process as well. (it's still safer to test though) Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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