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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: getty/login for callback
Keywords: tip getty login
Message-ID: <1406@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 Apr 89 23:08:19 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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>> ...A new 'C' program called /bin/login is now in place to detect the
>> username and determine if the ulimit is to be upped....

>I forsee a possible problem with this idea:...

...

>A better place to set the ulimit would be /etc/profile,

I forsee a *definite* problem with this solution, which is that
"/etc/profile" is run under the UID of the user who is logging in, and
only the super-user can up the ulimit.  (As somebody once said, roughly,
"'ulimit' is documented in the System V manuals under 'brain damage'.")