Re: RFC: dropping Linux capabilities support from pam_limits (bug #440130)

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hi Steve,

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> For a long time, the Debian pam package has been carrying a local patch to
> add support for Linux capabilities in pam_limits.  While catching up on bug
> triage work on the package, I've come to the conclusion that this
> functionality is broken, useless, and that no one actually uses it;

Sorry for this, maybe stupid, question, but how else can I change the
limits for an user? I see no other way than wrap the login shell with a
script that sets the limits.

Regards, Jörg.
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