> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > knitti > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:23 AM > To: Wolfpaw - Dale Corse > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Guruness (was the bug report thread) > > On 10/19/05, Wolfpaw - Dale Corse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try something for me - toss 40 novice programmers on a machine, and > > let them hammer away at it. In this one, I think I have you beat, > > running a shell provider for muds, for almost 10 years - I can tell > > you, BSD does not stand up to it .. > > well, I don't know about BSD in general, but just try it with OpenBSD. If > the machine is generally capable of this task (has the mem and power > to suppert n sessions in parallel), it's just your task as admin to make > it > happen. The means are there. If your users bring down your machine > it's most probably your own fault. > > --knitti
Turning this into a learning experience: Does anyone have any hints or advice about hardening OpenBSD for shell accounts. Do people tweak things other than the login.conf settings? I have to deal with student shell accounts where students are learning to program and often create problems by accident.
