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authorSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 21:22:21 -0800
committerSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 21:22:45 -0800
commit795badba7f95e737f979917859cd32c9bd47bcad (patch)
tree212a6a00baa11e9d0ca7bc27b12420d1dce6f07c /modules/pam_limits/README
parentc55c14c5c6762139ec6695d84ea0e2e917da5264 (diff)
parentba315ae8effdcad591608c99452dad05c4cf20ab (diff)
New upstream version 1.1.8
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@@ -22,12 +22,6 @@ denies access based on limit of maximum number of concurrent login sessions.
OPTIONS
-change_uid
-
- Change real uid to the user for who the limits are set up. Use this option
- if you have problems like login not forking a shell for user who has no
- processes. Be warned that something else may break when you do this.
-
conf=/path/to/limits.conf
Indicate an alternative limits.conf style configuration file to override
@@ -37,6 +31,11 @@ debug
Print debug information.
+set_all
+
+ Set the limits for which no value is specified in the configuration file to
+ the one from the process with the PID 1.
+
utmp_early
Some broken applications actually allocate a utmp entry for the user before
@@ -55,11 +54,14 @@ These are some example lines which might be specified in /etc/security/
limits.conf.
* soft core 0
-* hard rss 10000
+* hard nofile 512
@student hard nproc 20
@faculty soft nproc 20
@faculty hard nproc 50
ftp hard nproc 0
@student - maxlogins 4
+:123 hard cpu 5000
+@500: soft cpu 10000
+600:700 hard locks 10