Re: IDEA: Process-Special files

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:29:21 +0100 (BST)

> Related to the above is a simple trick to lock up a system...
>
> ln -s /proc/kcore ~/.plan
>
> or even
>
> ln -s /dev/zero ~/.plan
>
> Next time somebody fingers you...

My system is fine when I do that. Firstly fingerd runs as nobody with resource
limits here, secondly it checks for device files

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