This article is somewhat misguided. Limiting the number of user processes is an excellent idea, but provides no protection against a knowledgeable hostile user. If one of your users wishes to make your service unusable by hogging some resource then they will certainly find a way of doing it. The solution is to take away their account. Fortunately legitimate users very rarely wish to make the service unusable. However, they may very well *accidentally* run a fork bomb (I have done it myself) and for this reason it would be friendly of SuSE to ensure that default setups always set a process limit (it doesn't have to be very small). Bob ============================================================== Bob Vickers R.Vickers@cs.rhul.ac.uk Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London WWW: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv