Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:00:55 -0800 From: Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net> To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: peterh@ripewithdecay.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User login limit Message-ID: <20021105190055.GQ15618@techometer.net> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022E5E@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022E5E@mail.sandvine.com>
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:: > 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 I'm pretty sure that what you're seeing isn't tuning related, but rather it's that you're running out of ptys. To fix this, you need to edit a line in your kernel config from pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) to read pseudo-device pty 256 # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) Rebuild your kernel (see Chapter 9 of the handbook for info on rebuilding your kernels), and then when you have it installed, do the following as root cd /dev/ /bin/sh for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do sh ./MAKEDEV pty$i; done Cheers - Erick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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