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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux needs more work to be done! Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 23:05:17 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33C47B9D.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <5oqbad$1582@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <xdoradosk1v.fsf@bagel.rs.itd.umich.edu> <xdo4taj2akk.fsf@pita.ccs.itd.umich.edu> <5peb7i$aqv$1@netty.york.ac.uk> <pkuip5.tq.ln@zen> <5q0kja$4ni$1@netty.york.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9732 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44198 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1313 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:65374 comp.os.linux.x:66203 comp.os.linux.setup:120519 comp.os.linux.advocacy:104951 > Cheers for the suggestion (and also to the two people that emailed me > also suggesting the same thing :) - but how could one set a resource limit > on Linux when used as a central Uni× server where a user might wish to log > in with their own shell - perhaps even with the malicious intention of > bringing the machine down? Are there similar limits one can set in the This is what login classes are good for. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, in Linux has implemented something similar to the BSDI/FreeBSD/???BSD login class mechanism. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.