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Bug 146978

Summary: RHEL4: rexecd does not set limits on /etc/security/limits
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Karel Zak <kzak>
Component: rshAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Karel Zak 2005-02-03 10:23:40 UTC
*** This bug has been split off bug 146437 ***

------- Original comment by Karel Zak on 2005.01.28 02:34 -------

See original bug #68590 for FC. This is RHEL3 copy only.

The problem is that the rexecd doesn't call pam_open_session where the
limits are applied as rshd calls.

Comment 1 Tim Powers 2005-06-08 15:01:32 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-165.html