Non-root users can generally only *decrease* limits, not increase them. This makes sense security-wise, since otherwise the limits would not make sense at all, since the admin could not provide enforced limits.
** Visibility changed to: Public ** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue -- ulimit -c sometimes works, somtimes not https://launchpad.net/bugs/54207 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs