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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:

| On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote:
| 
| > Yes, but I couldn't use more ttys than 14 or smth if I didn't change the
| > value in the kernel config. And there's a note that said "a maximum of 64
| > users", so I set it to 64... But is that really "the" limit?!
| 
| No...MAXUSERS is only an approximation used to help set the max number of
| processes etc.
| 
| You probably got stuck at 16 ttys as I beleive thats the number of ttys in
| the GENERIC kernel. Did you adjust this nuimber?

Yes, pseudo-device   pty     64
is in there right now - I saw somewhere that the limit was 64...
But I was wondering if that was true.

pseudo-device   pty     16      #Pseudo ttys - can go as high as 256
oh, hmm... now it's 256 in LINT but somewhere else I saw 64... that's a
joke?! but than is the limit still 256 users that can login via telnet?!
(does it matter when I set value's to the maximum?)

Paul