On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:06:23PM +0100, Christian Biere wrote:
> I'm not sure but I think this a system-dependent default value. The
> right place to edit defaults for these resource limits would be
> /etc/login.conf, see login.conf(5). As a non-root user you cannot
> increase these limits beyond their hard limit, so trying to do this
> from the shell or the shell configuration file won't help. You can
> only lower them.
> 

Can you by any chance paste a snippet from working /etc/login.conf? How
do you update the DB with cap_mkdb(1)? How do you add new users?(Using
useradd(8) with -L switch i presume, just it doesn't work here).

Regards
Milos