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Anon sets up a prank at school (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Early_To_Risa to c/greentext

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[–] brotundspiele 58 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd scold the sysadmin instead for not cofiguring critical systems in a secure way. Ulimit exists for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Huh. I never made that connection before. I always thought ulimit was to prevent excessive disk writes or something

[–] brotundspiele 2 points 5 days ago

ulimit -H -u 10 will (hard)limit the current process (the shell) to 10 subprocesses. You can also use it to limit the number of open files etc.

To globally configure that for a user/group you'd use /etc/security/limits.conf instead.

If you want to prevent users from filling up the disk, take a look into quota.