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

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Javier Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino Pe=F1a (jfs@computer.org):
> Package: login
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge1
> Priority: important
>=20
> /etc/pam.d/login does not have the pam_limit module enabled:
>=20
> # Sets up user limits, please uncomment and read /etc/security/limits.c=
onf
> # to enable this functionality.
> # (Replaces the use of /etc/limits in old login)
> # session    required   pam_limits.so
>=20
> However other pam.d configuration files for common stuff (gdm, ssh, xdm=
 and=20
> suexec) enable it by default.
>=20
> Is there any reason why that pam module is not enabled by default. That=
=20

Good question. As the former maintainer has vanished, we may have hard
times finding whether this was deliberate or not.

Sam (Hartman), have you followed this=A0?

I find no useful information in debian/changelog.

Anyway, I'm very reluctant to make this change now so it's likely to
be post-sarge. Apart from that, I tend to agree with Javier,
particularly if other software using PAM have chosen to enable
pam_limits