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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:35:47 +0600 (NOVT)
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
To:        James Lim <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How come accounting limits of login.conf still doesn't work?!
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012141209280.30198-200000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c0640b$211c6220$2e189cca@sleipnir>

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Hi!

>     Perhaps you would like to give an example of ur login.conf here and give
> us a brief description of the problem?

Sure, why not :)

The problem is that not every limit of login.conf (though all of them are
documented well in man login.conf(5) page) works for me.  I'm trying to
set up pretty secured server based on FreeBSD (+ maybe I'll try to adopt
SecureBSD patch to it some day, but for now I simply want to get native
FreeBSD security fearutes working).  And, to my sincere dissappointment, I
can't :-(

General login.conf features, such as maxproc, openfiles, minpasswordlen
and so on seem to work.  Well, OK, I can ensure now that certain malicious
user won't bring my box down on it's knees by a fork() bomb too soon :)

But this is not all what I need.  I see those nifty daytime, idletime,
passwordtime, sessionlimit, warnpassword, warntime and such, and I want to
use them as well!  And, sadly enough, they don't appear to be working at
all for me.

As I understand, any limits that need time control, requite special daemon
to spawn a process for each login session in order to work.  So how come
that it's not written yet?  [Or, prove me wrong otherwise]

Anyway, I seek and will certainly appreciate any help/information
regarding this subject as it is of pretty high importance for me.

Thank you.

My login.conf attached at the end of this message.


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	Yours,
	DAN Fe


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