[systemd-devel] systemd user instance and raising limits

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017, 02:27 Jeff Solomon <jsolomon8080 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Understood.
>
> I didn't think that systemd paid one bit of attention to the settings
> controlled by pam_limits?
>

The user@ instance runs user-controlled processes, much like cron would, so
its service unit has PAM enabled as well.


> I'm only interested in a user instance that is lingering and operates
> outside of a session.
>

They always run outside of a session, even if the start was triggered by
session creation.

>

> My goal is that the child processes of the user instance will have limits
> that I set. If I understand correctly, if those limits are to be higher
> than the system's hard limits, then the user instance itself must have
> those higher limits set on it, yes?
>

Yes, since it's a regular user process with the same user privileges as
those child processes.
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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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