[systemd-devel] systemd user instance and raising limits

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mo, 20.11.17 09:20, Jeff Solomon (jsolomon8080 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Lennart,
> 
> Your explanation sounds great but it's just not what I'm seeing.
> 
> My user at .service has "PAMName=systemd-user" in the [Service] section.
> 
> I have setup limits for the user in /etc/security/limits.d/foo.conf.
> 
> I have no other limit overrides in any other systemd file.
> 
> Whether I reboot or "systemctl restart user@<uid>" I see the same thing.
> That is, the limits set through pam_limits are not respected.
> 
> I consistently see that if I login as that user, then "ulimit -a" shows the
> values I expect from pam_limits while "cat /proc/<pid>/limits" for the user
> instance process or its children do not.

Is pam_limits even enabled for the "systemd-user" PAM fragment on your
distro?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat