[Mageia-dev] forkbomb protection

[Johnny A. Solbu]

On Wednesday 28. November 2012 17.53, David Walser wrote:
> Their pam package has a /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf file that has:

> *        soft    nproc    1024
> 
> As the last comment on the bug says, it's a bit confusing that it's in limits.d/ and not the limits.conf file itself, 

His point is that any limits set in «/etc/security/limits.d/» overrides the «limits.conf» file.

> and in fact I'm not sure what is responsible for processing limits.d/* as limits.conf says nothing about it (Fedora's is the exact same as ours).  

We should add some comments in «/etc/security/limits.conf» about it.

> Anyway, one way or another it would be nice to have this limit set by default on Mageia, IMHO.  WDYT?

I think we should have this.

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Johnny A. Solbu
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