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    595 days ago

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

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      24 days ago

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

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        14 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.