Quoting Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: login
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
> Severity: normal
> 
> This change
>   * Make login and su use limits.so PAM module by default
>     Closes: #300720
> 
> breaks stuff like this:
> nice -n 19 su -c "somecommand" someuser
> because pam_limits.so resets the nice value to 0 even if
> /etc/security/limits.conf is empty.
> 
> See <http://bugs.debian.org/241663>.


Well, indeed. But, here, aren't we more the victims of #241663 rather
than the responsible for the change of behaviour ?


I'm considering reassining this to libpam-modules and merge it with
241663



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