Re: PTY DOS vulnerability?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 12:55:30 EST

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On Llu, 2003-06-30 at 15:18, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> Shouldn't PTYs be a per-user resource limit?

It depends to what degree you consider your users hostile. But yes its
possibly one of the things to do per user counting on.

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