Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel)
Cc: szaka@f-secure.com (Szabolcs Szakacsits),
	mag@fbab.net ("Magnus Naeslund(f)"),
	viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel),
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:34:31 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15YEfn-0001oz-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108181218380.5646-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> from "Rik van Riel" at Aug 18, 2001 12:20:26 PM

> 
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > The fix is to disable the check for RLIMIT_NPROC in
> > > kernel/fork.c when the user is root. I made this patch
> 
> > Everybody told him, including Alan, go away and fix PAM. He went away
> > and fixed PAM in 2 days. Up to day none of the main distributions ship
> > the correct[ly configured] PAM, so the problem still bites. Feel free
> > to rebut me.
> 
> Wouldn't that involve fixing login, sshd, and all other
> programs using pam to set the limits before fork()ing ?
> 
> I know the pam library is responsible for setting the
> user limits, but it's the program linked to libpam which
> is responsible for the order in which the other things
> are done, right ?
> 
> (then again, I don't know enough about the userspace side
> of things here, I'd be happy if somebody could enlighten
> me)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rik
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