Public bug reported: I have a group of workstations which are used for working with USRPs via gnuradio and matlab. gnuradio requires permissions to increase the thread priority (granted via pam_limits). Every user who uses these machines does so via LDAP accounts (which are also used on other workstations). LDAP users are added to the usrp group via pam_groups. The limit works fine for local users and for LDAP users manually added to local usrp group (entered in /etc/group), but does not work for LDAP users who are added to the group via pam_groups. In addition, adding an LDAP user to /etc/security/limits.conf directly does not work either. Another issue that is possibly related is that calling 'id' or 'groups' from an LDAP account returns all the local groups added via pam_groups, while calling 'id $USER' or 'groups $USER' only returns the LDAP groups that the user is a member of. This makes sense, because, with no arguments, id and groups return the groups of the calling process, while with the username as an argument, it queries the user database directly.
/etc/pam.d/login includes /etc/pam.d/common-auth, so the groups line should run before the groups line. I also strace'd the login process to see when things are being loaded. pam looks at limits.conf at around line 300, while it looks at group.conf at around 7000. This is consistent with the problem, but brings us no closer to finding a solution. A workaround would be to have a script that will just add all ldap users to local groups (once a day, perhaps?). This is not a good option, but it may be our only option. I posted this to the PAM mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/archives /pam-list/2011-October/msg00020.html), but but received no response. Is pam_limits and pam_groups not interacting with each other a bug or is that design intentional? If it is intentional, are there any good workarounds for this situation? Relevant files and command outputs: Ubuntu 11.04 uname -a: Linux ice04 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:02:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux dpkg -l | grep libpam-: ii libpam-ck-connector 0.4.4-1 ConsoleKit PAM module ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.32.1-0ubuntu2.1 PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login ii libpam-ldapd 0.7.13 PAM module for using LDAP as an authentication service ii libpam-modules 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.3 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii libpam-modules-bin 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.3 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM - helper binaries ii libpam-runtime 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.3 Runtime support for the PAM library /etc/security/limits.conf: @usrp - rtprio 50 /etc/security/group.conf: *;*;*;Al0000-2400;floppy,video,audio,cdrom,plugdev,users,usrp,wireshark,vboxusers,fuse,dialout output of 'ulimit -l -r' on LDAP user not added to usrp via pam_groups: max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 real-time priority (-r) 0 output of 'ulimit -l -r' on local user or LDAP user added to usrp via pam_groups: max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 real-time priority (-r) 50 ** Affects: pam (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897940 Title: pam_limits not working with pam_groups To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/897940/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
