[H-GEN] Denial of Service

[Jason Henry Parker]

A few days ago, my linux box was subject to a simple, yet horribly
effective denial of service.  I've found the perpatrator---it was someone
I trusted, someone I respect...

Oh, bugger it.

Yes, it was me, being stupid[1].  :)

So now, I'm thinking about process limits, or any other way of stopping
users from taking all the ram or cpu cycles.  Filesystem quotas are
being introduced once I get news sorted out[3], but what sort of settings
would the more experienced humbuggers recommend using?[4]

Cheers,

Jason

[1] : $ sort /dev/zero # [2]
[2] : Not really recommended.  :)
[3] : One Thing At A Time.
[4] : Erk, even the Armadillo Book doesn't really have much advice.  :(

---Jason Parker---ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au---
| ``This is the sort of thing up with which I |
|   will not put.''              -- Churchill |

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