On Friday, April 25, 2025 2:53:56 PM Mountain Standard Time Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > 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. > > --dkg
It is mentioned here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976373#14 You would probably have to ask Sam Hartman <[email protected]> for more information as to why. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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