How to kill a process started with a different user without being root or sudoer?
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in a Linux environment, I need to kill a process which has been started by user2 if I am user1 without being sudoers or using root. Do you know if there is a way of setting that when launching the process? Such as a list of users allowed to kill the process? The fact is that concurrent instances of…
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I'm sorry, but this simply is not possible (that's by design). However, if members of a common group, user1 could write to a file that user2's process checks, indicating to the process that it should terminate. Or, user2 could run something in the b…
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