Sending a signal to a process started by another user

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Apr 9 14:33:38 EDT 2002


On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:53:58PM +0000, Joonas Paalasmaa wrote:
> How can I send a signal to a process started by another user. In this 
> case my intention is to send a signal 14 to a process started by user jp 
> from a cgi script. The script raises an "Operation not permitted"- 
> OSError perhaps because the script is run by user "apache" and the 
> process by user "jp". How can In make this work properly?

   Using some form of setuid programs.

Oleg.
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