2-user systems

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1990Nov26.113040.1865 at metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes at suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:

| For what its worth: On DEC's Ultrix with a 2 user license, a max of 2 users
| may be logged in at a time.  These 2 users may however be logged in any
| number of times (from ethernet, serial lines, console or wherever).
| root is also able to login when two other users are logged in.  This to
| me seems the most logical way of implementing a 2-user system.

  If I were AT&T I would not feel that this enforced the 2 user limit.
What you seems to say (I may misread you) is that I can have 40 users on
at once, as long as I have them all sign in under one login and then su
to their own account.

  I don't want the 2 user limit to disallow any combination of two
users, but I surely don't expect any freshman to be able to defeat the
limit without thinking about it either.
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