RE: Forking shell bombs

[Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky]

> From: Max Valdez [mailto:[e-mail]]
>
> I set the ulimit -u 1791
> and the box keeps running(2.4.20-gentoo-r5) , but we still need the
> problem corrected, any other user can run ther DOS and crash the box, is
> there any way to set ulimits for all users fixed ??, not by sourcein a
> bashrc or something like that ?? because the user can delete the line on
> .bashrc and thats it

/etc/profile. 

This is an admin/distro problem.

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault)