Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:25, Dave Jones wrote:

>  > Kind of like saying it is the admins responsibility to disable
>  > open relaying of sendmail instead of having the default configuration
>  > setup to deny relaying.  By default fewer people create open relays, it
>  > does take a little effort to correctly setup sendmail for a new admin
>  > but safer for everyone else.  
> 
> Different problemspace as there aren't nowhere near as many good reasons
> to run an open-relay as there are to run without ulimits.

On the other hand the 'solution' of supplying a badly misconfigured
sendmail.cf and very unfriendly documention about fixing it is
just bizarre to the point of leading to discussion about replacing
sendmail as the default mailer...  An access file that only allowed
localhost by default would be just fine, thanks.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com