Odd pam_limits.so behavior on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Alexandre Skyrme wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> 	I'm currently trying to limit the maximum number of logins for users
> on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1. I have pam-0.75-46.9 (RPM) installed.
> Although the configuration seems to be correct the behavior is very odd.

Try adding change_uid option to pam_limits:
session     required      /lib/security/pam_limits.so change_uid

As far as I remember I added change_uid option to solve this problem.

Jan
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