Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-11-02 Thread Hella
In my experience these process accounting and quota systems are extremely cludgy and create a very large overhead for the administrators and are generally not worth the effort. I would suggest a wrapper script or even a simple company policy detailing what hours certain programs can be run, or

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > abusername hardnproc 2 This limit may need to be higher. Some quick poking around on my system shows that a process limit lower than about 10-15 *above* the desired amount will prevent things from running properly. I can't se

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the > users often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU > and Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic The following additions to /etc/secu

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
> Yes, it's a program that was wrriten and compiled by the user. I put a > priority for this user in file /etc/security/limits.conf. I wonder is there > is a way to put a quota for CPU % a user is allowed. The only thing that I > saw that can be set there is Max CPU Time. Or is that the same thi

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Thursday October 31 2002 11:42 am, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > > I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users > > often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and > > Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question > > is, h

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
> I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users > often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and Memory > that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question is, how do I > prevent him to run that program without revoking his user a

RE: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Original Message- >>From: Red Hat [mailto:redhat@;syrrx.com] >>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:05 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: How to ban someone from running a program >> >> >> >>You could change the ownership to root (or any ot

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Burger
Change the ownership (user and group) to something other than that user, and only grant execute permissions to the user/group which then owns that app. On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hi all, > I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users > oft

RE: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Red Hat
-Original Message- From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:reubendb@;innovativethought.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to ban someone from running a program Hi all, I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users oft

How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hi all, I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question is, how do I prevent him to run that program without revoking his user