Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed 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 Article-I.D.: mtxinu.274 Posted: Fri Jan 18 22:31:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 07:50:58 EST References: <1892@burdvax.UUCP> <2515@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 14 > 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. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146