Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

Bogdan Costescu (bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de)
Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:02:09 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> Don't such HA apps need to run as root anyways?

Not necessarily, but eventually you can let root (CAP_NET_ADMIN, anyway)
go through without any limitations, root can bring down the system at will
in other ways.

In addition, the rate limiting solution allows a warning to be issued when
the limit is exceeded, so that the poor sysadmin knows what hit him 8-)

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Bogdan Costescu

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