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

[Alexandre Skyrme]

Hi again Jan,

I did think about upgrading PAM using source code, but quite frankly I rather avoid it. Everything on this server has been installed using RPMs and mixing both worlds might not be the best of all ideas. I'll try installing Fedora's RPM using a test environment but again, that's not really a choice for a production environment. Thank you for the suggestion anyway.

I just verified the same behavior on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3. Perhaps if somebody at Red Hat could check on that issue we could get a new PAM RPM...

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-----Original Message-----
From: pam-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:pam-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jan Rekorajski
Sent: terça-feira, 31 de agosto de 2004 12:26
To: 'Pluggable Authentication Modules'
Subject: Re: Odd pam_limits.so behavior on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1


On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Alexandre Skyrme wrote:

> Hi Jan,
> 
> Unfortunately adding change_uid didn't seem to affect the odd behavior 
> in any way. Any other suggestions?

Yes, but painful.
You need to get a recent, up to date, version of Linux-PAM.
I fixed this bug after 0.75 was released (around version 0.76 of Linux-PAM), so the only way is to get the real thing. But, then you will have to rewrite all you pam configs as redhat uses non-standart hacks in their pam (mainly pam_stack.so).

You can get it at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library/Linux-PAM-0.77.tar.bz2

Jan
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