Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: Is there a way we can tweak the ulimit - user limit for all users. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/security/90836-user-limits-linux.h tml - wasn't so helpful. Try 'setrlimit' to set RLIMIT_NPROC to some agreeable value. NPROC is the

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-08 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 (राज माथुर) writes: On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: Is there a way we can tweak the ulimit - user limit for all users. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/security/90836-user-limits-linux.h tml - wasn't so helpful. Try

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-08 Thread Ankit Chaturvedi
2011/6/8 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: Is there a way we can tweak the ulimit - user limit for all users. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/security/90836-user-limits-linux.h tml - wasn't so helpful. Try 'setrlimit' to

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-08 Thread Gora Mohanty
2011/6/8 Ashish SHUKLA ashish...@lostca.se: [...] So will any of these solutions work when the user is logged in as root? In general, how are you going to prevent root from destroying your system? % getent passwd root root:x:65535:65535:root:/root:/bin/sh I was going to suggest the L33T

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-08 Thread Amar Akshat
Raj, Your approach is what I had in mind to distribute VMs to the interns. However they are supposed to take care of deploys on Lower Environment, and hence they some how obtain the root privilege. I guess I ll have to drive a sanity check for this once ! 2011/6/8 Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com

[ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-07 Thread Amar Akshat
Hi All, I have been lately disturbed by my fellow novice intern admins who have been granted super user privileges. They are all trying the kiddish stuff and it upsets the environment, and more over I am unable to hang around and see what is happening and fix that. Lately some of them have

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-07 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote: I have been lately disturbed by my fellow novice intern admins who have been granted super user privileges. They are all trying the kiddish stuff and it upsets the environment, and more over I am unable to hang around and see what is happening and

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-07 Thread Lukram Debendro
try with this link http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-limiting-user-process.html Deb 2011/6/8 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote: I have been lately disturbed by my fellow novice intern admins who have been granted super user

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-07 Thread Ankit Chaturvedi
Hi, On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Amar Akshat amar.aks...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been lately disturbed by my fellow novice intern admins who have been granted super user privileges. They are all trying the kiddish stuff and it upsets the environment, and more over I am