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login: install per-UID setrlimit(2) limits on login
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Authored by bnovkov on Feb 1 2026, 5:22 PM.
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des
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This change uses setrlimit_uid(2) to install per-UID resource
limits specified in the login class capability database.

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des requested changes to this revision.May 16 2026, 4:33 PM
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usr.bin/login/login.c
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setusercontext(3) calls setclassresources(3) which sets the resource limits according to login.conf(5).

This revision now requires changes to proceed.May 16 2026, 4:33 PM

D57031 updates setclassresources() to also handle RLIMIT_VMM. IMO it is the kernel's responsibility to figure out whether a given limit is per-UID or per-process-tree, cf. D55038.