On 21 Mar 2005, at 03:33, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 20:19, David Curry wrote:And, the
argument implies that either all system ops can disregard the risk of
fork bombing regardless of how their systems or used or that the system
ops have no idea of what the default settings are and the risks those
settings expose them to.
In a business environment you can usually expect people not to abuse shared resources - or they won't be around to do it again. For more hostile settings like educational labs or ISPs that allow shell level access the operator would be expected to lock things down more.
I just use the following motivation: "don't expect anything from anyone".
