[Centos] Re: centos] warning: fork bomb

[herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, str tux wrote:

> I tried to run this:
>
> :(){ :&:;};:
>
> as a non-root user in my CentOS4
>
> and it bring down my box to its knees.

It looks like a longstanding stupid local user geek trick -- 
where is the news?  A talented local user is a BOFH's worst 
nightmare and favorite victim.

If you cannot trust a local context user who can submit 
command line content, you are dead anyway.  It is a given that 
one wants to be, rather than compute under, a BOFH.

-- Russ Herrold