rainbow and pam

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:52:59PM +0100, victor wrote:
>I'm trying to get my head round how rainbow works and there is one
>thing I cannot figure out. Why is that the UIDs generated by rainbow
>do not have the same resource access privileges as other UIDs as
>set in limits.conf for pam? If I use a wildcard to match all users,
>the UIDs set by rainbow are not caught by it.

Probably because rainbow simply calls setgroups(), setgid(), and
setuid() in order to change credentials. What would you like it to be
doing?

Michael