Florian Ernst said on Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:39:58AM +0100:
> Hello Tom!
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> >How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with:
> >
> >perl -e "while(1){fork}"
> >
> >System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a loaded question, I
> >know.) Please no answers like: "don't do that" or "working by design".
>
> You could set a ulimit, see man bash. I didn't have the need to try it
> myself yet, but I guess it should work.
You can also set resource limits using pam modules on login.
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