Why is the process limit / fork-bomb protection gone?

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Why is the process limit / fork-bomb protection gone?

Postby mcgege » Tue Aug 13, 2002 9:21 am

I recently updated from 1.9.4 to 1.9.6 and noticed the vanishing - why is it no more? I used this feature to restrict my users ... :P

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Postby spender » Tue Aug 13, 2002 5:49 pm

it could be implemented via PAM, it's easy to shoot up load in many other ways, and we support process-based resource restrictions in the ACL system.

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Postby Himika » Thu Aug 15, 2002 4:16 am

I also noticed that very good features like ptrace restricting/logging and BSD-style coredumps are gone. I just wonder why.
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Postby spender » Thu Aug 15, 2002 10:43 am

bsd coredumps weren't security related, and the ptrace restrictions are done automatically in the ACL system.

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Postby evilcartman » Thu Aug 15, 2002 6:13 pm

But not everyone uses ACLs...
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