Bug 79989

Summary:	PAM can't count users - off by one in maxlogins
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alan Cox <alan>
Component:	pam	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <t8m>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	2	CC:	dgunchev, rnunn, srevivo
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Description Alan Cox 2002-12-18 14:13:32 UTC

Description of problem:

PAM limits maxlogins is off by one

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

0.75-40

How reproducible:

Add pam_limits to login
Add a user limit

@* - maxlogins 2

Everyone can log in 3 times.

Comment 1 Roger Nunn 2003-11-10 12:21:46 UTC

This is also the case with Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3
and Red Hat Linux 9

The testing is the same, the logins were via virtual console.

Comment 4 Doncho Gunchev 2004-05-29 23:01:18 UTC

I had the same problem with Red Hat Linux 8.

Comment 5 Tomas Mraz 2004-09-22 08:58:52 UTC

Actually in the current devel packages it's the other way around. It
allows user to login only maxlogins-1 times.

upstream pam-0.77 fixed it over pam-0.75 but as part of grubb_leak
patch it was 'fixed' once more ;-) FC2 should actually be fine.