Fun with limits.conf

leam hall leamhall at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 15:48:50 UTC 2013


I'm up for both.




On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Shawn Wells <shawn at redhat.com> wrote:

>  On 9/30/13 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?
>
>
> Good call. Make a patch.
>
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