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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:30:31 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To:        Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DoS from local users
Message-ID:  <19990409183031.F510@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990410011604.6886A-100000@xkis.kis.ru>; from Dmitry Valdov on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 01:18:49AM %2B0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990410011604.6886A-100000@xkis.kis.ru>

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On Fri, Apr 9, 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Try it:
> 
> cat > qqq
> echo $$
> echo ~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq
> 
> Ctrl-D
> 
> ./qqq
> 
> Is there Any way to fix it?

   You typically want to set a restriction as to how many
processes a user can spawn.  This is done by editing
/etc/login.conf and changing the user's login class, see the man
page for 'login.conf'.

> 
> Dmitry.
> 

   Followups set to -questions.

> 
> 
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