Setting max open files inside a chroot

[alephnull@hcoop.net (Alok G. Singh)]

This question was posted on Serverfault.com[1] by me but I did not get
any responses. Any help appreciated.

I have setup the limits in the host (the chroot being the guest) via
/etc/security/limits.conf and that works just fine:

$ ulimit -n
65535

However, inside the chroot it is still the old value

$ sudo chroot /opt/id/epsilon/
# ulimit -n
1024

I have this in the /etc/security/limits.conf in the chroot too but it
seems to have no effect.

*       soft    nofile      65535
*       hard    nofile      65535

pam_limits.so is enabled for login and sudo inside the chroot. Are there
others I should enable it for ?


Footnotes: 
[1]  http://serverfault.com/questions/182098/setting-max-open-files-inside-a-chroot

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Alok