unlimited vs. 1-2 users
Dennis S. Breckenridge
root at nebulus.UUCP
Wed Feb 7 10:11:00 AEST 1990
In article <5079 at ur-cc.UUCP> fraize at prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Scott Fraize) writes:
> Technically, what to vendors typically do to their unix to limit the
> number of users on on a machine?
They used to hook login to count the number of users logged in and
refuse to run if that number was exceeded. I understand that they
are getting better at the game and provide a system call to the
application that checks how many users are running and the application
dumps. BOO HISS!!!!!
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