From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 9 16:32:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A959314DB1; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:32:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip241.houston2.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.201.241]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0501937068; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA03198; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:30:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:30:31 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Dmitry Valdov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users Message-ID: <19990409183031.F510@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: ; from Dmitry Valdov on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 01:18:49AM +0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- ============================================= * "This process can check if this value is * * zero, and if it is, it does something * * child-like." -Forbes Burkowski, CS 454 * ============================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message