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Re: Crash any Debian Box

On Jul 28, Tom Gallagher wrote
> I run a Debian box which users have shell accounts on.  I was up and
> running fine until a user repeatedly crashed my system.  I removed his
> account got a copy of the source from his $HOME of what he was using to
> crash me.  It is called a fork bomb.  Attached is the source.  Any
> comments or possible fix would be greatly appriciated.

On Jul 28, Philippe Troin wrote
> [typical fork bomb snipped]
> 
> Maybe setting aggressive limits could help ?  Or try lshell.

I'll add a little clarification to that. Unix originated in a research
environment, where functionality was more important than protecting against
malicious local users. As such, by default there are no limits placed on the
amount of resources a user can attempt to acquire, such as processes or
memory. A fork bomb is a program that does nothing but creating new
processes (and often allocate huge amounts of memory) which brings the
system to its knees if there's no limit to the number of processes (and
memory per process) a user may have.

The "lshell" package provides you with an easy way of setting such limits.

Ray
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