Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 21 Mar 2005, at 03:33, Les Mikesell wrote:

> 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.

I just use the following motivation: "don't expect anything from 
anyone".