[arch-dev-public] Fwd: limits.conf and fork bombing

[Daniel Isenmann]

Am 05.06.2012 14:26, schrieb Dave Reisner:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:23:34PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
>>
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Betreff: 	limits.conf and fork bombing
>> Datum: 	Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:15:26 +0200
>> Von: 	M0Rf30<morf3089 at gmail.com>
>> An: 	tpowa at archlinux.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Could you insert a string into /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a
>> fork bombing attack?
>> An example:
>> *                hard    nproc          300
>> Thanks
>> Best Regards
>> Gianluca Boiano
>>
> Yeah, we've seen this before...
>
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25690
>
> d
>
Isn't this a task for the administrator of the computer? I don't see a 
reason, why we should add one for default in one of our packages.

  Daniel