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From: James Matheson <jmrm@eng-dsl>
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: maxusers in config file (4BSD)
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 15:12:24 EST
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Ed Gould writes
> 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.

This will only work if the login process used actually updates
utmp. People could get round this by writing their own /bin/login
without this feature and hey presto no limit!