12.10.10, 00:54, "Ted Unangst" <ted.unan...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dmitry-T wrote: > > Run as _normal user_: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null > > > It is not secure. One user script or program may load CPU and > > database or another servers lost speed in disk operations. > > This is hole for DOS attacks in OpenBSD design. > > > > How you use the OpenBSD as web servers and hosting platform? > > Permanently catch and kill processes? > > echo yes | rmuser `ps ua -p \`pgrep dd\` | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`
This is naive :) dd only example, you need to search users who load CPU. And with voracious programs you also have to be careful. -- Dmitry Telegin