Ramanraj K wrote on Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:40:34AM +0530:
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| Looks like there are not less than three places where we can impose
| restrictions.
| /etc/profile
| /etc/security/limits.conf
| /etc/pam.d/login - there were no comments in my distro and I am not
| sure how this helps.
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Like I mentioned earlier, two things use ulimit to set the limits and
be left out because there could be shells that dont obey /etc/profile
OR use PAM.
/etc/security/limits.conf happens to be the configuration file of the
pam_limits module. Whether you want to use pam_limits or not, is
determined by /etc/pam.d/login (or /etc/pam.d/<prog_that_uses_pam>).
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| I set # ulimit -S 200 and bravely tried the echo, and ended up with a
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ulimit -S? its ulimit -u for setting the user process limits.
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| There should be a test script that includes statements like
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Test scripts? Why not just see the ulimit -u value?
if [ "`ulimit -u`" -gt "`cat /usr/local/etc/max_ulimit`" ]; then
echo "you aren't safe"
fi
cheers,
-Suraj
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