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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:20:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA>
To:        Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Slivko <js43064n@pace.edu>
Subject:   Re: Possible Security Vulnerability
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102252319230.7273-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102251841340.14938-100000@awww.jeah.net>

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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Chris Byrnes wrote:
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: That's a pretty well-known "bug".  If you do anything on a machine "too
: much" to a point the system can't handle the commands, it'll either just
: fork the new processes, or reboot itself.

Yep Chris, which is why people *need* to limit regular users via
login.conf, it can effecively nuke any of these little games the users may
desire to play with the machine, don't we know it. :)

: Nothing new.

Yep.

: -Chris

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