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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: maxusers in config file (4BSD)
Message-ID: <274@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 22:31:12 EST
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> Sigh.  ``maxusers'' doesn't limit the number of people who can log in;
> it's supposed to be the largest number of people you expect to be bashing
> away at any one time.  ...
> 
> You can have maxusers set to 10 and have 10 thousand people logged in;

In order to comply with AT&T's restrictions on binary licenses, we've
added a maxusers() system call that returns the value from the
config maxusers parameter.  The limit is enforced by login(1),
by counting the numbers of entries in /etc/utmp.

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