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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:06:28 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   reasonable user limits to prevent abuse
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990312110628.00b8f5d0@staff.sentex.ca>

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Just wondering what most people are setting as hard limits for their shell
users.  What would be a reasonable amount for users to do what they need,
but prevent them from causing DOS attacks via fork bombs or eating up memory.

Is 
% limit -h
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        8192 kbytes
stacksize       4096 kbytes
coredumpsize    unlimited
memoryuse       10240 kbytes
memorylocked    10240 kbytes
maxproc         15 
openfiles       64 


too restrictive, or overly restrictive ?


	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel 01.519.651.3400
Network Administrator,     			  mike@sentex.net
Sentex Communications                 		  www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada


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