Why I can not use the PAM of RedHat9

[qin]

Thank you very much~

I have found the mistakes.

Thanks again,
-johson

2007/3/6, Yu Wang <yuwang at cs.fsu.edu>:
> The file should be /etc/security/limits.conf not access.conf.
>
> Yu
>
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> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:10 AM
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> Subject: Why I can not use the PAM of RedHat9
>
> Hi,
>
> We all know that the PAM has been embedded on the current RedHat9, but
> it seems that it does not take effects.
>
> I just want to test the pam_limits.so, and I write a simple
> configuration to limit the number of process in
> /etc/security/access.conf as follows:
>
> myaccount   hard   nproc   5
>
> (I want to limit the "myaccount" with maxnproc of 5 )
> Then, I changed my root account to myaccount, and run ps and grep.
>
> [root at Redhat9 security]# su myaccount
> [myaccount at Redhat9 security]$ ps auxww | grep ^myaccount
> myaccount   1626   0.0    0.5    2368  1324 pts/2   S   14:36   0:00
> bash
> myaccount   1627   0.0    0.5    2468  3324 pts/2   S   14:36   0:00
> ps auxww
> myaccount   1636   0.0    0.5    1968  1329 pts/2   S   14:36   0:00
>  grep ^myaccount
>
> It means that I have run three processes. And now if I continue to run
> 2 processes, the myaccount should be  prohibited by PAM. However, the
> PAM does not take effects to limit the myaccount. What is wrong with
> it? Are there something wrong with my configuration?
>
> [myaccount at Redhat9 security]$ man perl
> ....
>
> (it run ok, not be prohibited)
>
>
> Thank you very much~
>
> - johson
>
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