Is setting ulimit a 'root' level privilege type of thing???

At 10:53 PM 1/28/2002 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:53:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> > When I give the command "ulimit -m unlimited", the shell (either bash
> > or ksh) reports:
> >
> >    ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
> >
> > How do I allow a particular user to set his memory limit higher?
>
>If you look at the hard limit with 'ulimit -H' and then try to set to this
>limit, does it work ?
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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