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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 15:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dumb question. How does one get a user ID in a particular logon  class ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905191516000.9085-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4A256775.000D2E03.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au>

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On Tue, 18 May 1999 Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote:

> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> I am writing to ask how do non-root and non-default user-ids get the resource
> limits specified in a particulat /etc/logon.conf class.
> 
> My FreeBSD-2.2.8 STABLE host says about daemon class
> 
> "#
> # Settings used by /etc/rc
> #
> daemon:\"
> 
> Does this mean that processes started by rc* eg inetd, nfsd get these resource
> limits ?
> 
> How does a real daemon that's not started by rc* get these limits ?

Login limits come from the currently logged in user.  Their class is set
in the password file, and defaults to 'default' otherwise.

> This goes back to the CANNOT FORK messages from Delegate, a daemon (ie long
> running process) that SetSSIDs to nobody I think after starting as root.

Older FreeBSD versions had too-low limits in login.conf.  Have you tried
pulling a new login.conf from -current or -stable?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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