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From: dawes@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 2-user systems
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.164847.22382@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 28 Nov 90 16:48:47 GMT
References: <28370@usc> <2391@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Nov26.113040.1865@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <2434@sixhub.UUCP>
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In article <2434@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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.

I think I tried that, but it can't be done (unless all the users login
initially as root).

David
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