Quoting Edward Allcutt ([email protected]): > Package: login > Version: 1:4.1.5.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > /etc/pam.d/su contains a line for pam_limits.so but it is commented out > by default. This is in contrast to all the other "new session" type > services (atd cron login sshd *dm) which have it enabled by default. > > It would be nice to have more consistency to reduce the amount of local > configuration needed. I'm somewhat surprised pam_limits.so isn't in > the common-session* files rather than individually in those for the > login-type programs. Is there some reason a PAM session created by > su (particularly su -l) should differ from those created by cron or login?
I don't remember about a specific reason mais shadow's history is long and my memory is sometimes vanishing..:-) Let's include PAM maintainers in the loop and eventually decide with them if pam_limits could have good reasons to go into common-session.
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