Bug#300720: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#300720: Login: Configuration does not load limits.so while others do

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:59:20PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Good question. As the former maintainer has vanished, we may have hard
> times finding whether this was deliberate or not.

It was probably deliberate at some point because it might have an issue=20
with that. If that was the case it's no longer true.

> Anyway, I'm very reluctant to make this change now so it's likely to
> be post-sarge. Apart from that, I tend to agree with Javier,
> particularly if other software using PAM have chosen to enable
> pam_limits

It's a very safe change, actually, I asked this to the cron package=20
maintainer too (see #300725) and he has no issue changing that package.

Regards

Javier

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