Bug 171546

Summary: limits.conf don't pick "unlimited" settings
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: MIchael Kolmodin <michael>
Component: pamAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
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Fixed In Version: pam-0.79-9.6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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patch based on RHS patch for pam-0.77 none

Description MIchael Kolmodin 2005-10-22 20:53:32 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I want to set the memlock ulimit parameter to "unlimited" - this is to be able to run the crossover office plugin. According to the codeweaver people the ulimit -l setting must be "unlimited" for the plugin to wrok.

If I raise the value in limts.conf, I can indeed increase the ulimit -l argument. However, if i set the hard limit for memlock in limits.conf to "unlimited" I cant increase the value of the memlock limit to more than 32, the default value. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-0.79

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set memlock lhard imit in /etc/security/limits.conf ton 'unlimited'
2.log out, and in again as regular user.
3. $ ulimit -l 200
4. Watch output from ulimit, memlock is stoll 32. Should be 200.
  

Actual Results:  memlock limit is default value, 32

Expected Results:  memlock limit = 200,

Additional info:

This seems to be be recently fixed in RH server, see https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-526.html
Comment 1 MIchael Kolmodin 2005-10-23 16:20:25 UTC 
Created attachment 120292 [details]
patch based on RHS patch for pam-0.77

This patch Works For Me (tm). It's one of the patches for 0.77 handling
decoding of the limits.conf as described in the Errata adopted for 0.79.