[arch-dev-public] Fwd: limits.conf and fork bombing

[Stéphane Gaudreault]

Le 2012-06-05 08:32, Daniel Isenmann a écrit :
> Am 05.06.2012 14:26, schrieb Dave Reisner:
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:23:34PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
>>>
>>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>> Betreff:     limits.conf and fork bombing
>>> Datum:     Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:15:26 +0200
>>> Von:     M0Rf30<morf3089 at gmail.com>
>>> An:     tpowa at archlinux.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you insert a string into /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a
>>> fork bombing attack?
>>> An example:
>>> *                hard    nproc          300
>>> Thanks
>>> Best Regards
>>> Gianluca Boiano
>>>
>> Yeah, we've seen this before...
>>
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25690
>>
>> d
>>
> Isn't this a task for the administrator of the computer? I don't see a
> reason, why we should add one for default in one of our packages.
>
>  Daniel
+1 To do nothing. This is definitely an admin task.

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