linux-kernel - Re: Fork Bombing Attack

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Date:	Sat, 19 May 2007 00:40:25 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Attack

In article <25ae38200705181022l35e0b364p98fc39e5739612b@...l.gmail.com> you wrote:
>           I found one more interesting thing related with fork
> bombing attack. i have set following in /etc/security/limits.conf file
> 
>     #@...t    hard  nproc  3000
>     #@...nd hard  nproc  500

The # is a comment character. So those lines are not used.

BTW: the @ means group, you really want that? BTW2: you need to log out/in
and the session leader must actually be PAM regulated (i.e. not for daemons)

So it is good to check "ulimit -n" in the shell where you want to try the
forbomb. If it is below 100 you should be safe.

Gruss
Bernd
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