Uniquely identifying a user: is it possible?

[Thad P Floryan]

comeau at utoday.UUCP (Greg Comeau) in <1155 at utoday.UUCP> writes:

	>And, don't laugh; I've had over 16 people (myself multiple times,
	>too) logged into one of my UNIXPCs at ONE TIME.

	Interesting.  Via what mechanism?

Hmmm, did the article get truncated?  If so, here's the last paragraph again
in which I detail the how's and wherefore's (using StarLAN):

"
And, don't laugh; I've had over 16 people (myself multiple times, too) logged
into one of my UNIXPCs at ONE TIME.  This was during a party last month when I
became weary of a boor bragging about his system supporting multiple users at
one time (and, no, it was not any AT&T system although its name did begin with
the letter "A") that (thanks to StarLAN) I just started firing up the online
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
jobs and had them run GNU EMACS, gcc, several graphics demos, etc.  Needless
to say, the boor quickly became quiet!  It became very apparent very quickly
the UNIXPC outperformed a Mac II A/UX Version 1 (esp. with respect to disk
I/O); he brought his machine over from next door and there was simply NO doubt
in anyone's mind which machine was quicker.
"

I have a moderate-size StarLAN network to which many things are connected,
including a lot of terminals.  The StarLAN software (for the UNIXPC) claims
up to 32 users may be connected via StarLAN to a single machine (in addition
to which there are the 7 RS-232 ports, the onboard modem, and the console
window, for a max of 41 online users logged-in at one time) but I haven't
tried that many (yet! :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad at cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]