Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!jackg From: jackg@sequent.UUCP (Jack Griffith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: why does who not show rlogin-users Message-ID: <22295@sequent.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 20:46:03 GMT References: <964@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> <2400057@kailand> Reply-To: jackg@sequent.UUCP (Jack Griffith) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 46 I wanted to respond to some much earlier discussion regarding number of users as indicated by utmp and the # of users allowed to login to the system. I've recently run across an implementation of an undocumented library routine that will add the utmp entries for you. The "logic" with which init counts the number of users is to consider all of those with NULL host entries as direct tty ports and an individual user. Those with the same non-NULL host entry and user name will be counted as one user. Window SW needs to adhere to this in order to add new users without init thinking that you've gone beyond the user limit and bringing you down to single user (what Patrick Wolfe referred to as the panic regarding this). It is obviously prudent, given the drastic course that init takes, to checking your number of users against the limit before you go to try to add a new user. login does this as well as Sequent's flavor of xterm in S-Windows. The "preferred" method of this is to use add_utmp(3) which is currently undocumented (which has been recorded as a bug). It has the magic to check the number of user's in it and to return -1 when you've exceeded the usrlimit rather than getting "nailed" by init. add_utmp takes two params ...slot is the tty slot (pseudotty slot that you just acquired) to add and up is the utmp entry that you wish to add (stuff and play). /* * add_utmp * Add utmp entry to utmp file * Return 0 for success, -1 for error or usr limit reached */ add_utmp(slot, up) int slot; struct utmp *up; ________________________ Jack Griffith Customer Service Sequent Computer Systems uunet!sequent!jackg (800) 854-9969 _________________________