Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-27 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 26 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:55:04 +0200 > > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 > > > > > > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why can't you speci

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:55:04 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 > > > > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why can't you specify the "-g users" when running useradd? > > > -- > > > > g

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-26 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 26 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 > > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why can't you specify the "-g users" when running useradd? > > -- > > guess: scripted? And scripts can be changed, can't they? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why can't you specify the "-g users" when running useradd? > -- guess: scripted? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > I'm wondering what's the advantage of using a special group for each > user. Doesn't it just make user administration more complicated? It's explained here http://tinyurl.com/4bn9h Basically it aids in the sharing of files/directories

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:35 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, ppl I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple m

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:45:49 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting > > the newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a > > group with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on >

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 25 October 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > After a little search, it seems that the USERGROUPS_ENAB directive > in /etc/login.defs, although not explicitly mentioning this issue, is > the culprit. Setting it to "no" restores the old behavior (putting the > new users into group "users").

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:45:49 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting > > the newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a > > group with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on >

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 25 October 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. While one might agree or disagree about that, IMHO the problem now is that the options in /etc/default/useradd are ignored. If I run useradd -D it shows GROUP=100, but running us

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: > Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting the > newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a group > with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on getting the > old behavior back o

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 25 October 2007, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting > the newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a > group with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on > getting the old behavior back or any wo

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:35 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, ppl > > I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via > /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of > concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple > misuses like for

[gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, ppl I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple misuses like fork bombs by putting a limit (nproc) for group "users" and all other c