Re: user resources limits?

Darrell Wright (dwright@beached.lakeheadu.ca)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:01:23 -0400

Try using the pam module. add "session required
/lib/security/pam_limits.so" to you /etc/pam.d/login and set up the
limits in /etc/security/limits.conf. This will work for any shell and a
single user, group(s), or default for many limits can be specified.

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Darrell Wright
DAW Software Development
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German Jose Gomez Garcia wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not able to set user resource limits (with ulimit under bash or
> limit under tcsh), am I doing something wrong or does linux not support
> limitting maximun memory/filesize/descriptors/... in a per-user basis?
>
> If not any user could make the system unusable using for example
> some kind of memory consumer program as the one attached.
>
> - german
>
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> One O.S. to bring them all |
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