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

[David Gillies]

Perhaps you could log a bug in Redhat's Bugzilla site:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com

Alexandre Skyrme wrote:
> 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...
> 
> Regards,
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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