Re: Dangerous defaults... oldest attack still works

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 06/08/05

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    On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:03, 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?
    >
    > Andy

    This item was discussed extensively a few weeks ago....

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