[ale] user limits

[James Sumners]

I assume such signaling would be handled by the application that
handles the user login. I recently wrote a PAM based login program and
that is the way I understand how it works. Basically, whatever
application handles the user login process must setup the user's
environment and load the appropriate PAMs. Then, any processes that
are started from that controlling application inherit the PAM
environment that has been setup. So this controlling application will
intercept any signals sent from PAM and handle them appropriately.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is weird. Pam can block users from chewing up too many resources
> but where does it output it's signaling? I can set a low limit on
> noprocs and login and get a "Resource Temporarily Unavailable" message
> on the console. But that's useless if it's a mouse click on a launcher
> icon...
>
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 19:23 +0000, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
>> For what it's worth, this behavior is native to OpenVMS...it's just too bad that the OS is limited to Itanium and Itanium's future is...iffy.
>>
>> - Jeff



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