[Beowulf] strange ulimit+ssh problem: ulimit unlimited only works in certain cases

[David N. Lombard]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:21:01AM -0700, Rahul Nabar wrote:
> I am trying to get my "ulimit -l" set to unlimited, for normal users,
> and not sure what's going wrong. I get the correct ulimit under only
> once particular scenario: If I become root and then su to a normal
> user. Otherwise it doesn't seem to work.

Did you look at PAM limits and /etc/security/limits.conf?

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