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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 2-user systems
Message-ID: <2434@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 03:51:01 GMT
References: <28370@usc> <2391@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Nov26.113040.1865@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Nov26.113040.1865@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:

| For what its worth: On DEC's Ultrix with a 2 user license, a max of 2 users
| may be logged in at a time.  These 2 users may however be logged in any
| number of times (from ethernet, serial lines, console or wherever).
| root is also able to login when two other users are logged in.  This to
| me seems the most logical way of implementing a 2-user system.

  If I were AT&T I would not feel that this enforced the 2 user limit.
What you seems to say (I may misread you) is that I can have 40 users on
at once, as long as I have them all sign in under one login and then su
to their own account.

  I don't want the 2 user limit to disallow any combination of two
users, but I surely don't expect any freshman to be able to defeat the
limit without thinking about it either.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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