setting nproc in /etc/security/limit.conf prevents ssh login
- by omry
I am trying to use /etc/security/limit.conf on Linux (Debian) to limit the number of processes per user.
for starters, I tried to limit my own user processes by adding this to /etc/security/limit.conf:
omry hard nproc 100
this locked my user out of ssh. I could open new processes (verified with su omry), but could not log into ssh with that user : sshd reported this in it's log:
fatal: setreuid 1000: Resource temporarily unavailable
also, I am certain my user is not running anything near 100 processes (actually 6). what can be the reason for this?