Il 17/02/2009 00:05, Corey Hickey ha scritto: > [...] > > That's a good idea, and I tried it, but I think that's not quite how > limits.conf works. I haven't found anything that says this plainly, but > I'm pretty sure the following are true: > > * Limits are applied at login by the pam_limits module, which reads > /etc/security/limits.conf. See pam_limits(8).
You're right, I missed that. > * Otherwise, limits are inherited from the parent process, and not > changed by a setuid() call. > > [...] > >>From my testing, 4208 KB is the minimum needed for me, but I don't know > what a good comfortable value would be. I'm attaching a patch that sets > it to 8 MB, but maybe it would be good to go even higher. > > The diff.diff file is the diff of the original 10_drop_privileges.diff > and the new one. > > -Corey Thank you Corey. I'd try to apply your patch, which seems just fine: I think 8 MB is a reasonable value to start with. Ahmed, do you agree? Maurizio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
