Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:47:28 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) Message-ID: <19990413004728.C1968@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <199904102057.NAA01570@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 01:57:32PM -0700 References: <199904102051.WAA07790@zed.ludd.luth.se> <199904102057.NAA01570@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, Apr 10, 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Sun has a product for this, Solaris Resource Manager. > > ... and if one user is *supposed* to be running all those processes, then > what? Oh, let me guess: Now you are supposed to tune each user's account > independantly. For a system with general user accounts, this is a burden > on the sysop. 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. > 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. > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> -- Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Computers talk to each other worse than their designers do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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