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		archangelic on Aug 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: tilde.town: A social network over SSH Creating a user is luckily very automated, but we have had to increase the amount of information we ask to hopefully screen out bad actors who just want a shell account and then run bitcoin miners (which has happened several times).

phre4k on Aug 28, 2020 [–]

Can't you block bitcoin miners via limiting CPU time per user?

As soon as a user hits x amount of minutes CPU per minute, you kill all his programs.

Not nice but effective.

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