[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#122186: Please confirm if this bug may still be reproduced

[Christian Perrier]

tags 122186 unreproducible
retitle 122186 [TO CLOSE 20050405] su doesn't adjust limits when using '-' option
thanks

You reported this:

When I become root with

$ su -

I should wind up with the same ulimits I would have if I had actually 
logged in as root. Otherwise, there are lots of unpleasant side effects 
if I restart a daemon or run an apt-get dist-upgrade from that shell as 
the new processes inherit the lower limits of the user I was before 
becoming root.

(For example, the CPU time limit is particularly troublesome as it 
causes daemons to mysteriously quit without warning).


As Karl Ramm mentioned you when answering o the original bug report:

Are you restricting user limits via the pam_limits module?  If so, do you
have it set up for su as well as login?



Indeed, uncommenting the pam_limit line in /etc/pam.d/su makes the
limit setting work properly in su if they're set in
/etc/security/limits.conf            


So, I think this bug cannot be reproduced and is very likely a
misconfiguration. I will close it soon unless I'm convinved not to do so.


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