Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:41:14 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: PTY DOS vulnerability? |
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How about giving each user his own set of virtual ptys?
Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2003-06-30 at 22:31, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > >>That is true, though, of course. Stupid me not to think about >>that. However, that means that an administrator who could find >>himself being under such an attack might not think about it >>either. Also, from the outside, the ssh client just does >>nothing, making it look as if the server is unresponsive. Of >>course, the exact error is logged to the server's syslog, but if >>you can't view it, then you won't know about it. >> >>So all in all, do you think I should implement a per-user >>resource limit on PTYs? > > > There are a whole collection of things that would benefit from that kind > of management - go for it but make it possible to add other stuff too > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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