David Markey Posted November 17, 2008 Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 I've been looking for an answer to this everywhere.How can i protect my terminal server from a simple batch fork bomb. This is trivial on Unix/Linux, but how is it done on windows server?Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted November 17, 2008 Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 :( I personally do not know how you would do this on a Windows server, - but the simple answer would seem to be by placing a limit the number of processes that a single user may own. If you can do this and a process tries to create another process and the owner of that process already owns more than the maximum you have set, the creation should fail. You would need to ensure that the maximum was set low enough so that if all the users who might simultaneously bomb a system do so, there will still be enough resources remaining to avoid total disaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Markey Posted November 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 :( I personally do not know how you would do this on a Windows server, - but the simple answer would seem to be by placing a limit the number of processes that a single user may own. If you can do this and a process tries to create another process and the owner of that process already owns more than the maximum you have set, the creation should fail. You would need to ensure that the maximum was set low enough so that if all the users who might simultaneously bomb a system do so, there will still be enough resources remaining to avoid total disasterHow can i set the maximum number a process a user may own? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Sorry, but:( I personally do not know how you would do this on a Windows server Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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