Change the Owner of a Running Process

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Jason Joines wrote:
>      Is there anyway to change the owner of a running process?  I have a
> kiosk machine that only runs mozilla under the ID of browser.  I would
> like to change the owner of the process to root once mozilla has
> started so that users would not be able to kill the browser.

I'm not sure that what you're trying to do is possible.  And even if it
was, i think it would be extremely dangerous.   For starters, i don't
think having root own the process would prevent someone from killing the
browser.  You can't really control who does what with an X app once its on
the screen & running.  Also, if the browser was running as root, the
person could gain access to the entire filesystem, with the ability to
alter it.

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