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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
Cc: "'Peter Hoskin'" <peterh@ripewithdecay.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: RE: User login limit
References:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022E5E@mail.sandvine.com>
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:
:> From: Peter Hoskin [mailto:peterh@ripewithdecay.com]
:> 
:> I've noticed FreeBSD doesn't like accepting more than 24 
:> logins, no matter
:> if they're local, ssh, etc.
:
:in your /boot/loader.conf file, put a line like:
:kern.maxusers=0
:
:Or set it to an actual value.
:0 will cause it to auto-size
:
:See tuning(7) for more information.
:
:--don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com)

    This has nothing to do with it.  Don't change maxusers.  The issue
    is almost certainly the number of pty devices you have in /dev.  Try
    creating more pty devices:

    cd /dev
    ls pty*
    ./MAKEDEV pty0
    ./MAKEDEV pty1
    ./MAKEDEV pty2
	...
    ls pty*


					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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