Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system

2000-03-23 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
OK, I know I should not answer to this thread, but I do it anyway, sorry for that. On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Generally speaking if a user wants to crash a machine, he can crash > a machine. We've probably 'fixed' a dozen crashability holes in the [...] > For examp

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread Egervary Gergely
> I don't see anything about session accouning in the pam_limits section > of the html docs distributed with Redhat (this doesn't mean they're not > present though ;-) What exactly does it do? for example, this is very important on a ppp dial-up server: $ grep maxlogins /etc/security/limits.conf

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:01:33AM +0100, Egervary Gergely wrote: > > > has anyone ported it to BSD? > > > > /etc/login.conf can set limits for you, in a possibly more flexable way. > > but login does not support session accounting that pam_limits.so does. I don't see anything about session ac

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread Egervary Gergely
> > has anyone ported it to BSD? > > /etc/login.conf can set limits for you, in a possibly more flexable way. but login does not support session accounting that pam_limits.so does. (it should support, but it's not implemented) -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:29:55AM +0100, Egervary Gergely wrote: > > /etc/security/limits.conf > > mmm... this is for pam_limits.so in linux > > has anyone ported it to BSD? /etc/login.conf can set limits for you, in a possibly more flexable way. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread Egervary Gergely
> /etc/security/limits.conf mmm... this is for pam_limits.so in linux has anyone ported it to BSD? -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-22 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jim Bryant wrote: > well, there are other ways to make a system slow to a crawl > #!/bin/csh > /usr/games/primes 1 4294967295 >&/dev/null& > [...] /etc/security/limits.conf get the idea? :) -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In reply: :> This is cross-posted to both linux-kernel and freebsd-hackers, please :> set your replies properly. :> :> > I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you start the :> > 'gexample' from the examples directory with dimension=1 and no of :> > tasks=32 on one machine, i

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jim Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000322 14:19] wrote: > In reply: > > This is cross-posted to both linux-kernel and freebsd-hackers, please > > set your replies properly. > > > > > I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you start the > > > 'gexample' from the examples directory w

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-22 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > This is cross-posted to both linux-kernel and freebsd-hackers, please > set your replies properly. > > > I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you start the > > 'gexample' from the examples directory with dimension=1 and no of > > tasks=32 on one machine, it becom

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
This is cross-posted to both linux-kernel and freebsd-hackers, please set your replies properly. > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:02:40 +0100 > From: Michael Lampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How a normal use

How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
anybody want to try this on -current? ron -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:02:40 +0100 From: Michael Lampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How a normal user can crash any linux system I found the following by accident playing with PVM.