Ramanraj K wrote on Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:19:42PM +0530:
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| # ($0 & $0 &) top
|
| You would see that more than 96% of your CPU is running bash, and you
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its not about the CPU. Its about getting the kernel busy and making
the system unusable. If you can type 'top' that itself means the bomb
is ineffective. and if you have a reasonable ulimit set, the sysadmin
would obviously come to the rescue and slay the user's processes.
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| could sell a single int value: the reasonable setting for ulimit -u
| may have a commercial value ;-) I still remember the days I lived
| without computers - they were far simpler :-) I hope we can have 100%
| robust and protected systems.
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I dont know if you have read other security HOWTOs, but if you did, it
would have told you that 100% security is a myth. You can only make
the life of the malicious user difficult.
pre-computers days? thats is getting far far beyond the point. :)
cheers,
-Suraj
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