Re: [gentoo-dev] pam: thoughts on modernizing pam_limits configuration that Gentoo ships with

[Sam James]

> On 11 Dec 2022, at 08:28, Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to touch base on the topic of pam_limits and the defaults that we ended up with in Gentoo.
>
> [...]
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Unless there's strong opposition to not bump those 1024/4096 current defaults, I'd like to bump those limits. Normally I'd create a bug and assign it to maintainer, however our sys-libs/pam maintainer has not been seen in last half a year, so I'd end up joining as co-maintainer there in the result.
>

You should still file a bug for two reasons:
1. Paper trail
2. sys-auth/pambase has another maintainer who *is* active :)

As for the question in your post, I'll have a think. Thanks!

Best,
sam