[wplug] /usr/bin/nice /bin/bash

[Christian Höltje]

* Logan (lws118 at psu.edu) [050803 17:49]:
> Is there a way to set the default priority of a person's shell?
> test:x:uid:gid::/home/test:/usr/bin/nice /bin/bash
> (in /etc/passwd) doesn't work, and neither does escaping the space.
> 
> I'm a bit concerned about trying to do it that way anyhow, as users can just 
> use the chsh command to change their default shell unless I give them a 
> restricted shell - which I don't necessarily want to do.

The best way (no secuity holes to worry about) is to use PAM's
resource limits module:
http://www.gpfn.sk.ca/techteam/pam/pam-6.html#ss6.8

Depending on your distro, you migþt have a file called:
/etc/security/lmits.conf

In my distro, it has a nice description of how to configure it.
Remember to keep a root shell open while testing this. :-/

In my case, I'd just add the following line:
offendinguser hard priority 5

This would run the user "offendinguser" at priority 5 (aka nice 5)

PAM is cool. :-)

Even better, on most newer distros, this will impact the user
whether they user ftp, http auth, ssh, telnet, or a console shell.
:-)

Ciao!

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