Bug#300720: Bug#300725: Bug#300720: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#300720: Login: Configuration does not load limits.so while others do

[Steve Greenland]

On 21-Mar-05, 23:44 (CST), Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote: 
> Quoting Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a (jfs@computer.org):
> > It's a very safe change, actually, I asked this to the cron package 
> > maintainer too (see #300725) and he has no issue changing that package.
> 
> Steve (Grrenland, cron maintainer), input??
> 
> Javier asked for shadow to be changed to have the PAM configuration
> for login to use pam_limits.so and points me to the change he asked
> you about this.
> 
> shadow (and login) being part of the base system, I'm very
> conservative about any change, while we are so close of the release.
> 
> So, Steve, do you plan to push this in sarge, or only make the change
> in sid?

I was not planning on pushing this into sid. While I think that Javier
is correct, I don't see it as necessary for sarge; it can easily be
corrected on a local basis. OTOH, if the release team says "yes, please
do it", I wouldn't object: it *is* about safe as a change can be.

Steve


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