# /etc/security/limits.conf

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#This file sets the resource limits for the users logged in via PAM.

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#It does not affect resource limits of the system services.

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#Also note that configuration files in /etc/security/limits.d directory,

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#which are read in alphabetical order, override the settings in this

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#file in case the domain is the same or more specific.

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#That means for example that setting a limit for wildcard domain here

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#can be overriden with a wildcard setting in a config file in the

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#subdirectory, but a user specific setting here can be overriden only

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#with a user specific setting in the subdirectory.

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#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:

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#<domain> <type> <item> <value>

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#Where:

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#<domain> can be:

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# - a user name

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# - a group name, with @group syntax

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# - the wildcard *, for default entry

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# - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,

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# for maxlogin limit

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#<type> can have the two values:

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# - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits

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# - "hard" for enforcing hard limits

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#<item> can be one of the following:

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# - core - limits the core file size (KB)

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# - data - max data size (KB)

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# - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)

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# - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)

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# - nofile - max number of open file descriptors

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# - rss - max resident set size (KB)

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# - stack - max stack size (KB)

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# - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)

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# - nproc - max number of processes

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# - as - address space limit (KB)

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# - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user

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# - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system

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# - priority - the priority to run user process with

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# - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold

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# - sigpending - max number of pending signals

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# - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)

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# - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to values: [-20, 19]

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# - rtprio - max realtime priority

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#<domain> <type> <item> <value>

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#* soft core 0

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#* hard rss 10000

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#@student hard nproc 20

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#@faculty soft nproc 20

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#@faculty hard nproc 50

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#ftp hard nproc 0

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#@student - maxlogins 4

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# End of file

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