[CentOS] Regarding fork bomb in a CentOS 4.4 Server!

israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
> Hi again, I was reading from the net
> http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran it from a
> root console  in a non-critical machine running CentOS4.4 and the serevr
> goes down... the command I ran was :(){ :|:& };: 
>
> Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on  CentOS?
>   


don't allow malicious users to have root access.   in fact, don't allow 
malicious users to have ANY shell access to your servers.