[sudo-users] file ulimit not set correctly
Thomas Falkenberg
TFALKEN at de.ibm.com
Thu Jul 5 17:43:40 EDT 2012
Hello Todd,
you are right. I have set a too big file ulimit in /etc/security/limits.
AIX handels it as unlimited. command "ulimit -f" says "unlimited".
In my opinion it would be a nice feature, if the ulimit is set higher than
allowed erroneous, that sudo evaluates it as us unlimited (such as AIX) or
as the maximum value 2G - 512blocks (1 TB), but not as zero.
Kind regards
Thomas Falkenberg
IT Center Mainz ECuRep AIX / IT Spezialist
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com>
To: Thomas Falkenberg/Germany/IBM at IBMDE
Cc: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Date: 04.07.2012 19:52
Subject: Re: [sudo-users] file ulimit not set correctly
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:14:13 +0200, Thomas Falkenberg wrote:
> Seems to occur, if the default user has a file size limit more than 2 GB
> and not unlimited file size limit.
According to the documentation I can find, the max value for the
file size limit is 2147483647 and the units are 512 byte blocks.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.files%2Fdoc%2Faixfiles%2Flimits.htm
What does is the "ulimit -a" output if you run "su - falkenbe"?
- todd
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