1 # /etc/security/limits.conf
3 #Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
5 #<domain> <type> <item> <value>
10 # - a group name, with @group syntax
11 # - the wildcard *, for default entry
12 # - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,
15 #<type> can have the two values:
16 # - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
17 # - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
19 #<item> can be one of the following:
20 # - core - limits the core file size (KB)
21 # - data - max data size (KB)
22 # - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
23 # - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
24 # - nofile - max number of open files
25 # - rss - max resident set size (KB)
26 # - stack - max stack size (KB)
27 # - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
28 # - nproc - max number of processes
29 # - as - address space limit
30 # - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
31 # - priority - the priority to run user process with
32 # - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
34 #<domain> <type> <item> <value>
39 #@student hard nproc 20
40 #@faculty soft nproc 20
41 #@faculty hard nproc 50
43 #@student - maxlogins 4