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Re:Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag by aero142 on Thursday February 23, 2012 @11:39AM (#3625553)
Anyone have any suggestions for preventing this on sandbox systems?
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Re:Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag by velshin on Thursday February 23, 2012 @08:25PM (#3627559)
Googling it says limit user processes via /etc/security/limits.conf http://goo.gl/RJJhN

Is it not that simple?

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Re:Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag by tzs on Thursday February 23, 2012 @11:42PM (#3628063)
I believe that for each level of the challenge, all users were ssh'ing in to the same user account, so even with per-user process limits a fork bomb would use up all the processes available to the competitors at that level.
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