Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Sorry for the noise. My fault. Shadow-4.1.4.3 is working normally. I've been using slim http://slim.berlios.de/ as a login manager run from a bootscript run by init and it seems that it is not setting the limits. If I login at the command prompt shadow sets the limits. The reason I thought shadow-4

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Good news everyone! shadow-4.1.4.2 works, it can (at least with PAM, I've not tried without) successfully limit the number of processes. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread pham.the.chung0
is it really. I have use it for my LFS. How can it be that. not nice anyone use it. can you send me the early version of it. Thank you very much 2011/10/9 Andrew Benton > Hello, > > I originally sent this to LFS support by mistake; I shouldn't send > emails late at night ;) > > I've wrote to LFS

shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, I originally sent this to LFS support by mistake; I shouldn't send emails late at night ;) I've wrote to LFS support before about fork bombs. Last July I learned how to prevent them by limiting the number of processes a user can have with /etc/limits. Recently I've been working on installi