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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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Chris Byrnes wrote: ... : 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 * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.ca http://www.lucida.ca/pgp * * GPG fingerprint - 53CA 8320 C8F6 32ED 9DDF 036E 3171 C093 4AD3 1364 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.ca/pgp iD8DBQE6mdmFMXHAk0rTE2QRAnWQAKCeJLmAyaA0li9bdFXaOEQCL166uwCdE88K MtX+H/194efc/ELbDmxMx8o= =opFh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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