Re: setting memory limits for ssh and xdm logins

2000-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:09:40AM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > Ahh, you are right, that solves the xdm problem. ulimit -v is what I > wanted. I missed this because I use tcsh which doesn't seem to have > an analog of this limit using its built-in limit command. Is there a > way to set a l

Re: setting memory limits for ssh and xdm logins

2000-10-03 Thread Dan Christensen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:36:39PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > I have put limits in /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a user from > > bringing down my machine by using up all the memory, and I have > > uncommented the line > > > > sessionrequ

Re: setting memory limits for ssh and xdm logins

2000-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:36:39PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > I have put limits in /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a user from > bringing down my machine by using up all the memory, and I have > uncommented the line > > sessionrequired pam_limits.so > > in /etc/pam.d/login so that

setting memory limits for ssh and xdm logins

2000-10-02 Thread Dan Christensen
I have put limits in /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a user from bringing down my machine by using up all the memory, and I have uncommented the line sessionrequired pam_limits.so in /etc/pam.d/login so that this is read. When I log in using a virtual terminal this works perfectly, bu