Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:11:25 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reasonable user limits to prevent abuse Message-ID: <19990313041125.4369.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990312110628.00b8f5d0@staff.sentex.ca> of Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:06:28 EST References: <3.0.5.32.19990312110628.00b8f5d0@staff.sentex.ca>
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> Just wondering what most people are setting as hard limits for their shell > users. What would be a reasonable amount for users to do what they need, > but prevent them from causing DOS attacks via fork bombs or eating up memory. Depends on what your users are supposed to be doing and what services you are supposed to be providing. In many cases, the answer is to limit everything to very small values and to gradually extend these for those users who complain and who show that they need more. In other circumstances, you give everybody the world and jump heavily on people who abuse the system. There's no best answer to this. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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