From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 25 20:20:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.ca (epsilon.lucida.ca [209.47.215.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1789F37B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:20:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@LUCIDA.CA) Received: (qmail 21392 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Feb 2001 04:20:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Feb 2001 04:20:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:20:20 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Heckaman To: Chris Byrnes Cc: FreeBSD Stable , Jonathan Slivko Subject: Re: Possible Security Vulnerability In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----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