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From: Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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Subject: When are login.conf limits honored?
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Are limits set by login.conf enforced for users no matter how their
process starts?  IE, if a person is gets a process started via apache
under their uid, (so setuid() I assume), do the login.conf limits
take affect?

It doesn't appear to, but perhaps I'm doing something wrong.