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    4 days ago

    ulimit -H -u 10 will (hard)limit the current process (the shell) to 10 subprocesses. You can also use it to limit the number of open files etc.

    To globally configure that for a user/group you’d use /etc/security/limits.conf instead.

    If you want to prevent users from filling up the disk, take a look into quota.