Re: [MiNT] Security

["Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

> an account. Any logged in user can hog all memory or cpu time to make the
> machine unusable, or completely bypass most protection MiNT has by making
> the right supervisor calls (not from the shell, they'd have to write a
> program for that though).

Strictly speaking, setting SECURELEVEL to 2 blocks any supervisor
access. Both Super() and Supexec() should raise SIGSYS then.

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Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
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