On Wed 2025-04-23 12:32:45 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > For the sake of completeness, this value is set by the Linux kernel, > can be reset by systemd, and can also be overwritten by pam for > particular groups using /etc/security/limits.conf, which is shipped in > libpam-modules. In the past, pam used to override this value by > default, but recently stopped doing so.
Thanks for this detective work, Soren! Do you have a pointer to the
recent change in PAM? It would be interesting to know why they stopped
overriding this, as well as why they started overriding it in the first
place.
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