On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:45 -0800, Dane Mutters wrote: > I thought you might find this helpful. (I brought this issue up with > the Slackware folks once, and they told me basically this.) > > http://wiki.craz1.homelinux.com/index.php/Linux:Security:Forkbomb > > I was also told that the ability to spawn such rampant forks/processes > is controlled by default in Debian. Is this the case? > > Here is an LQ thread where I brought it up: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/how-can-i-prevent-forkbombs-338560/ > > I would like to see something done about this, with Ubuntu as popular as > it is, even as a server in some cases. Is there a way that in the > future, one could simply download a package or click a box or something > and have a limit set, like the links suggest? That would make things > just "that much" more convenient for system administrators (and might > help them/us to remember to set these limits, too...).
If you don't know which limits to set and need a package for them, your job title should not be system administrator. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
