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

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ulimit -c sometimes works, somtimes not
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54207

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