On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 01:08:31PM -0500, M.Rudra wrote: > As a non-geek user I am concerned as I thought Linux is very secure. > So I googled "fork bombing" and after reading them, I have some doubts : This isn't really a general security issue. If a user on your system does this, find them and (metaphorically) smack them around. If you want to prevent this from happening accidentally, or if you have a critical server with users you don't trust (a situation to be avoided!) you can _reduce_ the chances of something like this happening by configuring resource limits, but since all computers do have finite resources, it's hard to have a generally-useful shared machine without some possibility of someone going out of their way to use more than their share. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
