From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 19:23:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1367D14C40 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 19:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA18204; Thu, 20 May 1999 21:49:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:49:27 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: MadMan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS In-Reply-To: <19990521020040.4440.rocketmail@web105.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 May 1999, MadMan wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to prevent memory > forking (fork bombs) and/or limit the amount of > processes allowed to each user. This would greatly > help me against the inside DoS attacks. man login.conf -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message