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I am using Ubuntu 20.10 in WSL, and there are problems with changing the ulimit -n. I tried several methods and one of them needed to add session required pam_limits.so line to the /etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive and /etc/pam.d/common-session files. After that i can't use sudo anymore. Same error all the time:

sudo: pam_open_session: Module is unknown
sudo: policy plugin failed session initialization

su mode also not work too:

nosheyakku@DESKTOP-GL13L32:/mnt/c/Users/nosheyakku$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure

Attempt to change password:

nosheyakku@DESKTOP-GL13L32:/mnt/c/Users/nosheyakku$ passwd
Changing password for kshnkvn.
Current password:
New password:
Retype new password:
Password unchanged
New password:
Retype new password:
Password unchanged
New password:
Retype new password:
Password unchanged
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
nosheyakku@DESKTOP-GL13L32:/mnt/c/Users/nosheyakku$ sudo whoami
[sudo] password for kshnkvn:
sudo: pam_open_session: Module is unknown
sudo: policy plugin failed session initialization

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