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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:44:55
Message-Id: 4F7BEDAE.40900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change by justin
1 On 4/4/12 8:32 AM, justin wrote:
2 > 1.
3 > Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
4
5 I think that's the best option, at least for now.
6
7 > 2.
8 > suid it (bad in my view)
9
10 Agreed, that'd be very bad, any crashing bug in it could become a
11 privilege escalation problem.
12
13 > 3.
14 > file capabilities (can this be done with portage)
15
16 Slightly better than the above, but I still prefer #1.

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