Quoting Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: login > Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge1 > Priority: important > > /etc/pam.d/login does not have the pam_limit module enabled: > > # Sets up user limits, please uncomment and read /etc/security/limits.conf > # to enable this functionality. > # (Replaces the use of /etc/limits in old login) > # session required pam_limits.so > > However other pam.d configuration files for common stuff (gdm, ssh, xdm and > suexec) enable it by default. > > Is there any reason why that pam module is not enabled by default. That
Good question. As the former maintainer has vanished, we may have hard times finding whether this was deliberate or not. Sam (Hartman), have you followed this ? I find no useful information in debian/changelog. Anyway, I'm very reluctant to make this change now so it's likely to be post-sarge. Apart from that, I tend to agree with Javier, particularly if other software using PAM have chosen to enable pam_limits
