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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ulimit -- You don't need sources! (kind of long)
Summary: Half a fix is no fix.
Keywords: ulimit
Message-ID: <562@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 4 May 89 16:19:04 GMT
References: <836@twwells.uucp> <4428@ihuxz.ATT.COM> <545@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <8305@chinet.chi.il.us> <5627@xyzzy.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyndon@nexus.ca
Organization: Athabasca University
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In article <5627@xyzzy.UUCP> duncan@rtp48.dg.com (W. Lee Duncan) writes:
>I suppose all have already though of this, but you don't need sources
>to modify login (or any other program).
>
>Simply move /bin/login to, e.g. /usr/lib/old_login (and make it non-setuid).
>Then, create a new /bin/login program (which will be setuid to root):

One problem with this is that cron jobs don't go through login. Yes I can
add an explicit ulimit command to the command lines in cron, just as I
can add wrappers around login. The fact that I have to do this on such
a global scale argues that perhaps this limit shouldn't be there in the
first place ...

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Lyndon Nerenberg   Computing Services   Athabasca University
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