rainbow and pam

[Jim Gettys]

Michael,

I detect a disconnect.

Victor needs some way to be able to set the real time features of Linux;
this is certainly desirable in various audio, voip and similar
applications.

Victor has been using the facilities in limits.conf to enable particular
user's accounts to do this under linux.

It seems reasonable to me that Rainbow should provide a way for a bundle
to declare such needs....
                  - Jim


On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 19:00 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:52:59PM +0100, victor wrote:
> >I'm trying to get my head round how rainbow works and there is one
> >thing I cannot figure out. Why is that the UIDs generated by rainbow
> >do not have the same resource access privileges as other UIDs as
> >set in limits.conf for pam? If I use a wildcard to match all users,
> >the UIDs set by rainbow are not caught by it.
> 
> Probably because rainbow simply calls setgroups(), setgid(), and
> setuid() in order to change credentials. What would you like it to be
> doing?
> 
> Michael
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