fuser -km gives shock!!

[Mike Zupan]

if you are logged in as a regular user and you sudo or su to root a fuser
-km /home would kill the login process of that user.. hence killing your
root session

On 2/18/07, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/18/07, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
> > > root can be accessing /home regardless of where root's home directory
> > > is mounted. Perhaps checking which processes you are about to kill
> > > before killing them would be helpful to avoid such surprises?
> >
> > The problem is that the man page for fuser, as pertains to the -k
> option,
> > says:
> >
> > An fuser process never kills itself, but may kill other fuser processes.
> >
> > This appears to be incorrect on both FC5 and FC6...I've tried it on
> both,
> > just this morning, and it kills the session/shell running the command as
> > well as everything else.
>
> I'm not really sure if this is a problem. When you kill off a whole
> bunch of root processes it isn't surprising there are some other
> processes caught in the crossfire.
>
> I'm guessing that /home in these cases is not a filesystem separate
> from / and that is probably the root cause of the problem.
>
> John
>
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