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From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
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>   How would I set up a users account so I could limit the number of=20
> processes they use?  For example if they are allotted 5 processes and the=
y=20
> start a 6th either all the processes get killed or the sixth is not=20
> allowed, something along those lines.

Please see

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-limiting.ht=
ml

as well as man login.conf.

The maxproc directive should do what you desire.

Simon

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