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

[Steve Youngs]

* Joseph V Laughlin <Laughlin> writes:

  > 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

I'm assuming that there are user-land tools to do these things now for
root, right?  So why not look into things like sudo(8) or even setuid
executables? 


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