2011/5/5 Steve Langasek <[email protected]>: > The manpage appears to be inaccurate, then and needs fixing; but that's > entirely separate from this bug report, which was about wildcard nofile > limits not being applied *at all*.
I didn't found any reference about this even after re-reading all the messages in the BTS. However, this might have been the intention but the example given by the reporter is for 'root' user. >> And in practice this is the only way to make 'nofile' limit work, by >> duplicating the wildcard limit for 'root' (see my config below). > > Correct. This is a Debian divergence from upstream that's been carried by > the pam package for more than a decade. We should have a conversation about > whether we want root to continue to be treated specially by pam_limits given > that this has never been upstreamed, but that's not a "bug" per se, and > again is not the behavior that this bug report was filed about. I think any divergences from upstream should be documented, probably in README.Debian? At least for as long as there are divergences. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
