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As normaluser:
$ ulimit -n 4096
-bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
As root it works as desired – but then it won’t affect normaluser.
How to get out of this catch 22? I’ll need this to be persistent.
You may want to look at /etc/security/limits.conf