[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#300720: Login: Configuration does not load limits.so while others do

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

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Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge1
Priority: important

/etc/pam.d/login does not have the pam_limit module enabled:

# Sets up user limits, please uncomment and read /etc/security/limits.conf
# to enable this functionality.
# (Replaces the use of /etc/limits in old login)
# session    required   pam_limits.so

However other pam.d configuration files for common stuff (gdm, ssh, xdm and=
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suexec) enable it by default.

Is there any reason why that pam module is not enabled by default. That=20
seems to be another hurdle in admin's way when he wants to configure=20
user limits as he needs to modify both /etc/security/limits.conf and then=
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/etc/pam.d/login with no indication in either limits.conf nor=20
/etc/security/limits.conf that this module is not enabled per default in=20
'login'.

Regards

Javier

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