* Jim B said:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:
>
> > And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters?
> > They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory.
>
> OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a
> time) an
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:
> And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters?
> They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory.
OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a
time) and none of them alone was suf
* Jim B said:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:
>
> > He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of
> > setting
> > limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or
> > whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:
> He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of
> setting
> limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or
> whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you loose
> all the limi
* Jim B said:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since
> > they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where
> > pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be
> > ulimited past that.
* Ethan Benson said:
> >
> >Also: I still don't know of any way to set the Virtual Mem usage of a
> >shell without using ulimit (bash) or limit (csh)! Note that it does not
> >appear to be an option in /etc/limits or in pam's limits.conf. Anyone
> >know how to do it? There must be a way.
>
> u
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote:
$ ulimit -v
unlimited
$ ulimit -v 32767
$ ulimit -v
32767
$ ulimit -v 32768
bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
OTOH if you're talking about someone who switches his shell to get around
the limits, that's my whole point. I need to know how to
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since
> they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where
> pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be
> ulimited past that.
Hmmm. How would a user "
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote:
Then (in /etc/limits) I set "no limits" on my own accounts:
-
I would actually want to keep at least some of the limits on my own
account as well, just to prevent a runaway process from causing
problems, that is why i am interested in limits so reasonable no one
I asked myself the same question, so I logged into my shell account at a
local ISP and took a look at what they use on their FreeBSD machine with
512 MB of RAM:
core file size (blocks) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes) 22528
file size (blocks) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes)
Subject: Re: /etc/limits
Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:19AM +0100
In reply to:Onno Ebbinge
Quoting Onno Ebbinge([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote:
>| >OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I
>| [snip]
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote:
If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and
/etc/security/limits.conf instead.
Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up.
I have figured out how to set these limits up well enough, but I have
a related question, how can i set reaso
Should be in your limits man page.
If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and
/etc/security/limits.conf instead.
Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote:
> >OK another issue
At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote:
>OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I
[snip]
>I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those
[snip]
Where can I find more info on /etc/limits ?
Regards,
Onno
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