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From: Alson van der Meulen <freebsd@alson.linuxfreak.nl>
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Subject: Re: Background processes limiting
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500, James Wyatt wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Kal Torak wrote:
> > James Wyatt wrote:
> > > I have seen such things done in .logout scripts, but usually users can
> > > remove the .logout file to prevent the action. One approach might be to
> > > have a script run from cron that finds processes with a PPID of "1"
> > > (parent now init) and owned by a regular login user and kills them.
> > > Another might be to look for regular-user process without an associated
> > > tty device. Hope this helps... - Jy@
> > 
> > Why not just make .logout owned by root? Only give the users group read
> > access... That should work, just have a killall -m . -9 or something
> > like that in there...
> > 
> > Then just have your cron job running every so often to clean up anything
> > that might of somehow slipped though the cracks...
> 
> If the file is owned by root, but in a directory owned by joe.user, then
> Joe can easily 'rm' the file himself. I liked the idea of using a .logout,
man chflags... look at schg

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