Fun with limits.conf

Trevor Vaughan tvaughan at onyxpoint.com
Sun Oct 6 01:35:56 UTC 2013


Sorry for the double post. I just wanted to make sure that the presence of
the 'soft' line didn't throw an error.


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Trevor Vaughan <tvaughan at onyxpoint.com>wrote:

> As a note, both:
>
> *  -  core  0
>
> AND
>
> *  hard  core 0
> *  soft   core 0
>
> Should pass.
>
> Trevor
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:28 AM, <fcaviggi at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>  All,
>>
>> Most of the guidance for RHEL security has suggested setting the
>> following in /etc/security/limits.conf:
>>
>>         *    hard    core    0
>>
>> I have generally set this to:
>>
>>         *    -    core    0
>>
>> Because this sets both the hard and soft limits on the system. Most SCAP
>> scanners are looking for very specific values there.  I'm looking at
>> modifying the checks to pass either 'hard' or '-' for the value.
>>
>> I'd also to fix the maxlogins in the rule (*max_concurrent_login_sessions
>> *) in /etc/security/limits.conf to look for the DOD default (10) and
>> lower to satisfy the check. Security standards are there as a baseline, why
>> 'fail' the setting for exceeding the baseline value?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Frank Caviggia
>>
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