Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:18:00PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> as you pointed out.  But why not set a default limit instead of leaving
> it open?  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

It's not like that at all. It's like having the default configuration
allowing your own users to send mail out from the box. If you find one of
them is sending out spam, you can deal with them.




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