OpenSSH-1.12pre15: fun with ulimit

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Jim Knoble wrote:

> Since upgrading from pre11 (aack, that was old!) to pre15, i get the
> following message when logging in via ssh to a box with the OpenSSH
> server running:
> 
>   ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted
> 
> I've traced this to the following command in /etc/profile:
> 
>   ulimit -c 1000000
> 
> It seems as if sshd is turning off core dumps for the shell session it
> spawns.  Any idea what change caused this, and whether this particular
> effect is reversible without compromising security?  A cursory
> examination of the ChangeLog wasn't particularly revealing to me.

Are you sure that it is not PAM which is setting the limit? A quick
grepping through the code shows that ssh will set the limit, but sshd
does not.

Damien 

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