License Management Facility (LMF)

[Bruce Barnett]

In article <MEISSNER.90Apr10172729 at curley.osf.org> meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:

|  I believe the 'two user' problem is an artifact of the System V.2
|  license structure, which has such silliness in it. 

As I understand it, the term multi-user depends on how many terminals are
on a machine. Network connections do not count, as no real terminal
is physically attached when a remote login occurs.

Therefore a Sun with two serial ports is a two-user machine. You can
have 100 people log on over the network. and it won't kick you off with 
"too many users". If you add a 16-port serial interface card, you should
purchase a multi-user upgrade.

For some reason DEC considers a network connect a new user, while Sun
does not. Don't ask me why.

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Bruce G. Barnett	barnett at crd.ge.com	uunet!crdgw1!barnett