FC3 Security

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 9 Mar 2005, at 21:57, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

> Scot L. Harris wrote:
>
>> I don't know about this particular university but students tend to do
>> stupid things given half a chance.  And some of them are quite
>> knowledgeable regarding networks and those things called computers.  
>> :)
>>
> A simple sample of how a student can do a stupid thing and annoy the 
> IT personnel and half of the other users:
>
> The teacher , during the Operating Systems class , mentions that most 
> OSs dont limit the allocation of memory and
> that with a excessive use of memory allocation without freeing , you 
> could crash any machine.
> Student goes out of class , logs in the main machine used by everyone 
> in the department , and compiles a simple
> while(1) { malloc } program.... He runs it once.. Machine goes 
> offline.. Probably thinking it was just a coincidence ,
> he runs it again... And a third time ... No wonder he got his account 
> suspended for 1 month ;)
>
> So , yes.. Students will do something stupid if they have the chance 
> (and trust me... there's lots of chances for stupid things)

That's the reason quotas exist in first place... The admin should have 
placed restrictions on resource usage.