*BSD News Article 99532


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!not-for-mail
From: Nathan Hand <nathan.hand@anu.edu.au>
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: 13 Jul 1997 16:12:55 +1000
Lines: 17
Sender: nathanh@stoli.spirits.org.au
Message-ID: <m2k9iv32fs.fsf@stoli.spirits.org.au>
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: 150.203.148.87
X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9738 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44336 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1324 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:65519 comp.os.linux.x:66407 comp.os.linux.setup:120912 comp.os.linux.advocacy:105247

pih100@york.ac.uk (Paul Halliday) writes:

>   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
> kernel?

Limits imposed can't be undone, so stick them into /etc/profile and
the user is effectively stuck with the limits.

-- 
The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use
a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for
computing than it is for other tools (eg automobiles, airplanes, guns
or power saws).