Re: Extending ulimits

From: Janne Johansson (jj_at_jj.it.su.se)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: 30 Mar 2004 13:26:07 +0200

Timo Weggen <tweggen@loewe-komp.de> writes:

> When logging in, the shell tells me, that the maximal value is exceeded.
> typing ulimit -a also reports a default of 65535.
>
> While I'm aware of the security risks involved with insensible
> ulimit values, I'm interested in granting considerable amounts
> of memory to selected users.
>
> But how can I do that?

Add them to a group in login.conf that have larger values as a maximum limit?

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