On Fri, Jul 28, Lieven Moors wrote: > hello everyone, > i have some questions regarding the rtprio and nice-settings in the > limits-file. > i am working with pam 0.99.4 and pam doesn' t recognize nice or rtprio as > valid limit items. > the auth.log says "unknown limit item". > did some googling and found out this might be a glibc problem: > RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_NICE not defined in the <bits/resource.h> file. > i also found some hints that certain earlier pam patches resolved this by > defining these themselves. > > my question is if recent pam-versions are including these definitions, or > not, or that libc-patches or updates are necessary for rtprio and > nice-limits to work. You need a current kernel and glibc for this. We will not add and maintain hard coded defines in Linux-PAM only because people wish to use the latest features without to update to software which provides this. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = 8C6B FD92 EE0F 42ED F91A 6A73 6D1A 7F05 2E59 24BB _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
