Re: Dangerous defaults... oldest attack still works

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• From: Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:11:08 -0500
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On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:03 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> Is Fedora Core aware that the oldest attack known to Unix still works?  I mean 
> why don't they put a default to ulimit instead of unilimted?
> 
> Does fork bomb ring a bell?

This has been beaten to death time after time on this list.  Please read
the archives before posting this kind of claptrap.

Thomas

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