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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:20:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DoS from local users (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199904131220.IAA08601@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990413004728.C1968@holly.dyndns.org> from Chris Costello at "Apr 13, 1999 00:47:28 am"

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Chris Costello once stated:

=On Sat, Apr 10, 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
=> :Sun has a product for this, Solaris Resource Manager.

=   You don't need to tune user accounts, you need only put the
=users in a separate login class (if that hasn't already been
=done) and modify the resource limitation for that login
=restriction.

Speaking of which. Can we have the login class database distributed
over NIS?

=>     If one can't control one's users, one has no business managing
=>     them. The last thing FreeBSD needs is some overly complex,
=>     sophisticated scheduler designed to help bozo sysops stay on
=>     their feet.

=   I agree with you very much here.  Public shell systems are a
=bad idea.  In my opinion, you should trust someone before you
=allow them to have an account on your system.

Can we, perhaps, have a configurable maximum load level for each
class? The users of the class will not be allowed to start new
processes if the current load is above that number?

	-mi


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