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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Only root can login & MAXUSERS > 4? Message-ID: <1992Sep30.071252.4571@autelca.ascom.ch> Keywords: Permission denied MAXUSERS 386BSD Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <2AC8B07A.17659@ics.uci.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 07:12:52 GMT Lines: 32 bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes: >I've had two problems with 386BSD: >1. All of a sudden, only the root user can login to my machine. Whenever [ text deleted - NB. ] I am sorry, but I can't help with this one. >2. I recompiled the kernel, setting MAXUSERS to 16, so that I could > at least open a few windows under X386, but it still limits me > to 4 pty's. What have I done wrong? The number of MAXUSERS is not related to the number of pty's you can access. In the config file for your system there is a line containing something like pty 4 You should change this 4 to, say, 16 and voila, you will have 16 pty's devices for X (after creating a new kernel with this config file, of course). I am not sure whether you have to create the devices in /dev or whether they do exist already. To be sure, look in /dev for *pty* files. If the don't exist, you can create the device entries by calling MAKEDEV pty (or something similar). You should look into the MAKEDEV file to find out what the exact syntax is. I am sorry to be not very specific, but I have my 386BSD system at home and I am at work, now. Hope this helps, anyway, Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt