On Monday 26 February 2007, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps': > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:39:27 -0500 > David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:12:49 +0100 > > Christoph Nodes wrote: > > > I am using sys-libs/pam-0.78-r5. > > > > As best I know, it's the ulimit setting that's relevant and pam is not > > involved. > > AFAIK, pam is only for Authentication.
There are a lot of tangential issues (like limits) that were traditionally controlled by the authentication "stack" on unix. PAM allows you to replace all of this, so there are indeed PAM modules that control limits. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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