Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 02:33:28 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 20:19, David Curry wrote:
> And, the 
> argument implies that either all system ops can disregard the risk of 
> fork bombing regardless of how their systems or used or that the system 
> ops have no idea of what the default settings are and the risks those 
> settings expose them to.

In a business environment you can usually expect people not to
abuse shared resources - or they won't be around to do it again.
For more hostile settings like educational labs or ISPs that
allow shell level access the operator would be expected to
lock things down more.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com
 




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