Re: running init by non-root-user....

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:01:09 +0100
  Daniel Roethlisberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>Your login processes need root priviledges (eg., 
>authenticate, switch
>uid, ...). Init needs root priviledges too (eg., mount 
>partitions,
>start/stop daemons, ...).
>
>I don't think what you're trying to achieve is possible 
>with traditional
>unix security concepts. You could try something in that 
>direction with
>SE-Linux though, where you don't have a real super user, 
>but give every
>component exactly the rights it needs to do what it's 
>supposed to do.
>But it's a lot of work to set up properly.
>
>Cheers,
>Dan

I mean, there're two major user on system, the root and 
the init-user.
init user handling all user request that doesnt cause 
critical problem to system, ex, user password(login) and 
PATH. so user interacting  to  init user for their 
request, not to init root.

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