From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 25 11:23:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B86C37B6B0 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:23:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2098 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jan 2001 19:22:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:22:01 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Allen Edwards Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Post - Limiting processes Message-ID: <20010125212201.C1122@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Allen Edwards , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <20010125211418.B1122@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010125211418.B1122@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:14:18PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:14:18PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0500, Allen Edwards wrote: > > Feel free to flame the newbie if he asks an off topic question (great now > > I'm talking about myself in the 3rd person). > > > > Is there a way to limit a user to a certain number of processes? e.g. one > > foreground and one background process. > > > > I am working on providing some shell accounts to a few clients who have > > requested it and have heard of persons doing this. [snip] > Actually, *one* foreground process is a bit too much - you need ..surely 'a bit too STRICT' was what I meant :) > at least one for the shell and one for any program the user might > run. Each shell pipe and/or other program fork is one more process. > So.. tread lightly :) G'luck, Peter -- This inert sentence is my body, but my soul is alive, dancing in the sparks of your brain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message