Hi, I was thinking of playing with /etc/security/limits.conf, however I am now having second thoughts...
The Debian Security HOWTO has this file in the contents, but no actual discussion. I then had a look around the web and usenet, and while I found alot of people making reference to limits.conf, I could not find any decent example of it in use. Secondly, from what I can gather, limiting the number of user processes (nproc) is broken for kernel 2.4.x (at least, according to Alan Cox on the kernel list last December). As far as trying to prevent the impact of fork bombs go, this is a bit of a set back :( Aside from this, I can't seem to find any decent examples of what one should put in limits.conf. I'm sure I could make some kind of approximate guess as to how much memory and cpu time I should limit, but I would feel more confident if there were some examples out there. Anyway, if anyone is using limits.conf, could you please post your configuration with perhaps a little comment describing why you have chosen certain values, etc.. Perhaps this information could be summarised and put into the security HOWTO? cheers, Ian. -- Ian Cumming, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
