[torqueusers] changing session id.

[Garrick Staples]

This is the big mystery.  If you find a solution to this problem, we'd all love
to hear about it!

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:08:44AM +0000, Steve Traylen alleged:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I am looking for some suggestions on how to deal with the problem
>   of users changing their session or group id and thus enabling 
>   themselves to leave process on batch workers. The code below highlights
>   a way to do this.
> 
>   Has anyone else considered this and have they implemented anything
>   to address the situation. Either to stop it in the first place or
>   to clean it up afterwards. For the clean up it is less than trivial
>   since we run two jobs per node so simply cleaning all process belonging
>   to a user in the epilogue is not an option.
> 
>      Steve
> 
>   
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>   pid_t p = fork();
>   if (p == (pid_t) -1) {
>     exit(0);              /* we failed.... */
>   } else if (p == 0) {    /* CHILD */
>     setsid();             /* new session */
>     setpgid(0, 0);
>   } else {                /* PARENT */
>     exit(0);
>   }
> 
>   /* Do something usefull here */
>   sleep(6000);
> }
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve Traylen
> s.traylen at rl.ac.uk
> http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/
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-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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