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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: maxusers in config file (4BSD)
Message-ID: <328@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 16:19:09 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.328
Posted: Thu Jan 24 16:19:09 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Jan-85 17:21:07 EST
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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In article <7602@brl-tgr.ARPA> James Matheson <jmrm@eng-dsl> writes:
||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!

Or, even simpler, remove /etc/utmp! (So who needs who(1) anyway?)

Dave Sherman
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