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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:28:47 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any work around for this FreeBSD bug/DoS  ?
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990817202758.0513f630@granite.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199908171736.KAA18291@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <4.1.19990816203409.05989960@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19990816213403.05a3b540@granite.sentex.ca> <3.0.5.32.19990817131742.02a5f6c0@staff.sentex.ca>

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At 01:36 PM 8/17/99 , Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    There have been proposals to extend the concept of per-user resources
>    (for example, maxproc is a per-user resource).  This way you would be
>    able to set reasonable overall limits for the user that do not overly
>    restrict the per-process limits.  However, nobody has attempted to 
>    actually code the idea.  It seems to me a fairly easy thing to do through
>    the use of the credential's cache (but I'm not volunteering).
>
>						-Matt

Do any of the existing UNIX variants out there have this level of granularity? 

	---Mike
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