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From: rad@faron.UUCP (Richard A. Dramstad)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards,net.decus
Subject: Re: Limiting logons to licensed number: how?
Message-ID: <316@faron.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 16:53:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 27 16:53:41 1985
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References: <1029@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Reply-To: rad@faron.UUCP (Richard A. Dramstad)
Organization: The MITRE Coporation, Bedford, MA
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Keywords: Ultrix, binary licenses
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Summary: 

In article <1029@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> bugoff2@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (J. Bradley) writes:
>As a purely academic question: how do outfits like
>DEC (Micro-Vax II) and VenturCom (Venix, DEC Pro/Venix)
>limit the number of "init"'s for logons?  Both companies
>want to charge a user license fee by the logon.
> ...
>Again as a purely academic question: is the trick done in
>the kernel, "/unix", or in "init", or where?
>
>J. Bradley

  According to some notes I took at the Portland BSD4.3 internals
course, Ultrix uses BSD's quota mechanism to enforce AT&T binary
license restrictions.

Dick Dramstad