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From: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=  <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
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On 8 May 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav  wrote:

> Tom <tom@sdf.com> writes:
> > On Thu, 7 May 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > Root is limited by login.conf, just like everyone else.
> >   No, root is not limited by login.conf.
> 
> Yes, root *is* limited by login.conf. Excerpt from the login.conf(5)
> man page:
> 
>      A special record "default" in the system user class capability database
>      /etc/login.conf is used automatically for any non-root user without a
>      valid login class in /etc/master.passwd. A user with a uid of 0 without a
>      valid login class will use the record "root" if it exists, or "default"
>      if not.

  That say that limits for the class called "root" are used for the user
called "root".  It doesn't actually say that those limits are enforced or
not.

  root owned processes will not be killed for exceeding hard limits
(unless your process hits the system-wide maximum, for resources that have
them).

> -- 
> Noone else has a .sig like this one.

Tom


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