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List:       openbsd-bugs
Subject:    Re: system/1205: kernel panic
From:       Artur Grabowski <art () stacken ! kth ! se>
Date:       2000-04-25 10:20:02
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The following reply was made to PR system/1205; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>
To: jon@bsdsecurity.com
Cc: gnats@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: system/1205: kernel panic
Date: 25 Apr 2000 12:18:45 +0200

 jon@bsdsecurity.com writes:
 
 > Any local user can crash OpenBSD 2.6 if they have execute permission for
 > /sbin/mknod, which is the default.
 
 Do you have any details on the panic? I couldn't reproduce it. I just ran out
 of processes so I had to login on the console and do:
 
 ps aux | grep fifo | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill
 
 (question for 2 points: Why do we reserve the last _5_ processes to root? :))
 
 //art
 

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