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How do DE's call ACPI functions?
Okay, first off, this is not a problem I am facing, but I would like to understand this better.
If I wish to shutdown / reboot my machine from the command line I need to call:
$ sudo poweroff
$ sudo ...
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Is it possible to kill another user's program? How?
root can kill any program run by any user. Is it possible for a user to kill another user's program without using sudo, etc.?
Example: How can make user foo kill program x which is run by user bar?
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Linux: allowing an user to listen to a port below 1024
I need to allow an user (different from root) to run a server listening on port 80.
Is there any way to do this?
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How to disable certain system calls for a given user?
I am creating a web app similar to codepad and for each run-action my app copies a directory (/home/radeks/voidptr/private/chroot-root) to /tmp/voidptr/[random-id]/chroot-root. This chroot directory ...
