Need help with restricting number of new objects a user script can create

Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination
Wed Mar 22 12:38:41 EST 2006


vj enlightened us with:
> how do I restrict the user from (inadvertently or maliciously)
> creating a large number of objects which will bring down the entire
> 100 nodes.

Use ulimit to give them a limited amount of CPU time, memory etc. The
kernel will then kill runaway processes.

Sybren
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