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Albert Hopkins schrieb: |
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> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:35 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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>> Hi, ppl |
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>> I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via |
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>> /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of |
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>> concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple |
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>> misuses like fork bombs by putting a limit (nproc) for group "users" |
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>> and all other common groups ("games" etc.) |
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>> Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting the |
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>> newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a group |
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>> with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on getting the |
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>> old behavior back or any workaround to achieve the same goal - all |
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>> users should be limited by default at creation time. |
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> Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. |
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> Nevertheless, override the default behavior: |
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> # useradd -m -g users xyz |
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> Albert W. Hopkins |
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I'm wondering what's the advantage of using a special group for each |
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user. Doesn't it just make user administration more complicated? |
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