Shell Fork Bomb Protection - Exceptions?

[Monotoko]

Hi Guys,

I have a user that runs a Minecraft server. This is a java file that has quite a high memory requirement, and when "Shell Fork Bomb Protection" is switched on it will not let me run the file under the user.

I would like the protection on for all accounts except the "minecraft" user, is this possible?

Daniel

[MattLee]

Hello,

Unfortunately, this option is only a global setting and our interface doesn't allow any exceptions to the rule once enabled.

[cPanelTristan]

While this cannot be done via the interface, it may be possible to revise using the limits set into /etc/profile location, which are the entries added by Shell Fork Bomb Protection:

#cPanel Added Limit Protections -- BEGIN

#unlimit so we can run the whoami
ulimit -n 4096 -u 14335 -m unlimited -d unlimited -s 8192 -c 1000000 -v unlimited 2>/dev/null

LIMITUSER=$USER
if [ -e "/usr/bin/whoami" ]; then
LIMITUSER=`/usr/bin/whoami`
fi
if [ "$LIMITUSER" != "root" ]; then
ulimit -n 100 -u 20 -m 200000 -d 200000 -s 8192 -c 200000 -v 200000 2>/dev/null
else
ulimit -n 4096 -u 14335 -m unlimited -d unlimited -s 8192 -c 1000000 -v unlimited 2>/dev/null
fi
#cPanel Added Limit Protections -- END

You could revise to add another user in the section where it has the if-else clauses to set the root and non-root user ulimits. You might also want to set the user's settings in /etc/security/limits.conf file.