Cannot set max no of processes hard and soft limit by pam_limits when using sudo

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Issue

With the current sudo code base, it is impossible to set the limit on maximum number of processes owned by a user to unlimited.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • sudo-1.7.4p5-11.el6.x86_64

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