Re: [Jack-Devel] su, limits, PAM and JACK

Jamie Heilman wrote:

> I  suppose you  might want  to think  of limits.conf  as  the single
> control point of  what resource limits any process  of given user or
> group has, but that's not what it is

Really?   What is  it  then?  It  certainly  *looks* like  a map  from
users/groups to resource  limits.  And I don't see  anything else in a
PAM-based system that makes  that association.  That's close enough to
a "single control  point of what resource limits  any process of given
user or group has" for me!

> and  wishing  won't  make it  so,  nor  will  any amount  of  system
> reconfiguration.

If  I  configure su,  sudo,  sshd and  similar  services  to call  the
pam_limits module then surely that *does* make it so!

Anyway, I added pam_limits to /etc/pam.d/su and it just works, so I am
running with that for now.

Thanks for the discussion though, it was very interesting.

Regards,

Jeremy Henty

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