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Date:      Wed, 01 Sep 1999 19:10:45 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve <geniusj@free-bsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW: Local DoS in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990901190908.04e0af00@granite.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011603300.1964-100000@free-bsd.org>
References:  <3.0.5.32.19990901162052.023c18d0@staff.sentex.ca>

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At 06:04 PM 9/1/99 , FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve wrote:
>Explain what you mean? That is what login classes are for, you dont have
>to put "nobody" in a limited class if this is what you mean.. And you can
>set internal limits in apache if that's what you mean.. I feel you mean
>either one but I don't know :)

The limits that you have to set for Apache are quite low and restrictive. I
am not sure if you can effectivly do this in a large production webserver.
There are many cases where users need more than a few file descriptors. 

	---Mike
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