Greetings: I am attempting to set my hard nofile limit to 16384 and SLES 8 (AMD64) won't let me. With the limits.conf file set with the below settings, only the root user can login via ssh. I have set this parameter under the x86 SLES 8 successfully. With the 'hard nofile' line set to > 1024, I get the following error. sshd[1480]: Accepted password for oracle from ::ffff:10.40.10.92 port 2165 ssh2 fatal: PAM session setup failed[6]: Permission denied Here is what I have. SLES 8 AMD64 with 2.4.21-199-smp /etc/security/limits.conf * soft nofile 2047 * hard nofile 16384 * soft nproc 2048 * hard nproc 16384 Tail end of /etc/profile if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then ulimit -u 16384 ulimit -n 16384 fi If I comment out the 'hard nofile' line or set it to 1024, all non root users can login. If set it to 1025, error. Any ideas? Thanks Joe Bedard