Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:04:31
Message-Id: 200702261856.45736.bss03@volumehost.net
1 On Monday 26 February 2007, Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx> wrote about 'Re:
2 [gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps':
3 > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:39:27 -0500
4 > David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:12:49 +0100
6 > > Christoph Nodes wrote:
7 > > > I am using sys-libs/pam-0.78-r5.
8 > >
9 > > As best I know, it's the ulimit setting that's relevant and pam is not
10 > > involved.
11 >
12 > AFAIK, pam is only for Authentication.
13
14 There are a lot of tangential issues (like limits) that were traditionally
15 controlled by the authentication "stack" on unix. PAM allows you to
16 replace all of this, so there are indeed PAM modules that control limits.
17
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