[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#311058: login: pam_limits.so in pam.d/su breaks "nice su -c foo bar"

[Andreas Metzler]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
Severity: normal

This change
  * Make login and su use limits.so PAM module by default
    Closes: #300720

breaks stuff like this:
nice -n 19 su -c "somecommand" someuser
because pam_limits.so resets the nice value to 0 even if
/etc/security/limits.conf is empty.

See <http://bugs.debian.org/241663>.

           cu andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-22      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l

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