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authorFelipe Sateler <fsateler@users.noreply.github.com>2016-10-10 10:40:05 -0300
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-10-10 15:40:05 +0200
commitbaed1fedba161d7db89636a417751891831c432a (patch)
treec844310ae7e427c1159b4d5ddfe3a62121bc5a2f /DISTRO_PORTING
parent84a69ca9ba49a516c741582c4b2f69b0feb0f020 (diff)
login: drop fedora-specific PAM config, add note to DISTRO_PORTING (#4314)
It is impossible to ship a fully generic PAM configuration upstream. Therefore, ship a minimal configuration with the systemd --user requirements, and add a note to DISTRO_PORTING documenting this. Fixes #4284
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@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ NTP POOL:
NTP servers, then you will get served wrong time, and will
rely on services that might not be supported for long.
+PAM:
+ The default PAM config shipped by systemd is really bare bones.
+ It does not include many modules your distro might want to enable
+ to provide a more seamless experience. For example, limits set in
+ /etc/security/limits.conf will not be read unless you load pam_limits.
+ Make sure you add modules your distro expects from user services.
+
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