Bug#841113: ITP: extremetools -- tools for running processes under extreme uid and gid
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:15:04 +0200
Jan Mojzis <jan.mojzis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jan Mojzis <jan.mojzis@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name : extremetools
> Version : 20161017
> Upstream Author : Jan Mojžíš <jan.mojzis@gmail.com>
> * URL : https://github.com/janmojzis/extremetools
> * License : public-domain
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : tools for running processes under extreme uid and
> gid
>
> Extremetools consists of 2 simple tools extremesetuidgid and
> extremeenvuidgid.
> - extremesetuidgid runs program under unique (extreme) uid and gid
> - extremeenvuidgid runs program with environment variables indicating
> unique (extreme) uid and gid
>
> This is useful for running processes in the system under unique
> (extreme) uids/gids. So processes can't ptrace each other, can't send
> signal each other, etc ...
Could you please elaborate on that "extreme" bit?
I failed to get even a basic explanation of it both from this
description and the project files on Github.
I understand that you may be not a native English speaker so you may
well be putting a meaning into that word which is (slightly) different
from the conventional perception of what it should be. ;-)
Reply to: