On Wednesday 20 July 2005 1:07 pm, Brandon Darbro wrote: Please call into support at Novell and get a bug filed. -Cameron
> Been having a hell of a time trying to get users ulimit commands to work > on SLES 9. Ulimit kept reporting values were out of range, not matter > what I placed as hard and soft limits in /etc/security/limits.conf. > > Finally figured out the problem. In /etc/pam.d, only services "login" > and "sshd" were configured to include the line: > > session required pam_limits.so > > As our Oracle DBA's must first login as themselves and then "su - > oracle" to get into the oracle account, their large ulimit values in > their .profile were getting the out of range errors. Well, it's because > that pam line above wasn't in the "su" pam file. This drove me crazy > for a couple hours today until I figured that out. Thought I'd pass > that info along, as well as ask the question: > > Shouldn't that pam config line above be included in *all* login > services, such as login, rexec, rlogin, rsh, sshd, su, and sudo? > > If you folks agree that should be included in the pam configuration for > those services, I'll file a bug report with SuSE. > > *Brandon Darbro > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Cameron Seader Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 801.861.2686 Cell: 801.913.5992 Fax: 801.861.9478 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
