Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
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 10:26:30
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr9zy=GFp=AKTP7G=9NjVhA3mBZQtVDPFe8RcafbkWc5_w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 2012/4/4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o>:
2 > justin schrieb:
3 >> iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
4 >> Any suggestions how to proceed?
5 >>
6 >> Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
7 >> suid it (bad in my view)
8 >
9 > I suggest to have a suid USE flag (disabled by default) so the user can
10 > choose between the two. Maybe advertise this change in an elog message.
11
12 Doesn't FEATURES=suidctl already cover crap like this?
13
14 -A
15
16 >
17 >
18 > Best regards,
19 > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
20 >
21 >