OpenSSH-1.2.3: return of ulimit problem

[Jim Knoble]

The ulimit problem appears to have reared its head again with
openssh-1.2.3, under Red Hat Linux 6.1 (kernel-2.2.12, glibc-2.1.2,
egcs-1.1.2, openssl-0.9.5, pam-0.68, pwdb-0.60):

  $ telnet localhost 22
  Trying 127.0.0.1...
  Connected to localhost.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  SSH-1.5-OpenSSH-1.2.3
  ^]
  telnet> quit
  Connection closed.
  $ ssh localhost
  Last login: Wed Mar 29 01:10:36 2000 from quipu.earth
  You have mail.
  ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Reading ~/.bashrc ...
  Reading ~/.profile ...
  
  today is Wed Mar 29 01:11:07 EST 2000
  $ 

The error message is caused by the following line in /etc/profile:

  $ grep ulimit /etc/profile
  ulimit -c 1000000
  $ 

With openssh-1.2.2 on the same system, the problem doesn't exhibit
itself:

  $ telnet localhost 22
  Trying 127.0.0.1...
  Connected to localhost.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  SSH-1.5-OpenSSH-1.2.2
  ^]
  telnet> quit
  Connection closed.
  $ ssh localhost
  Last login: Wed Mar 29 01:11:05 2000 from quipu.earth
  You have mail.
  Reading ~/.bashrc ...
  Reading ~/.profile ...
  
  today is Wed Mar 29 01:18:30 EST 2000
  $ 

The last time this happened, i solved the problem by putting an
appropriate directive in /etc/security/limits.conf to allow core dumps:

  # grep '^[^#].*core' /etc/security/limits.conf
  @wheel          hard    core            1000000
  # grep wheel /etc/group
  wheel:x:10:root,jmknoble

This appears not to be working with openssh-1.2.3.  Any ideas on what
change could have caused this to resurface?

-- 
jim knoble
jmknoble at pobox.com