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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.goodnet.com!usenet From: hp@doitnow.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Help: about "user" license Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:11:07 GMT Organization: GoodNet Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4nc3c1$1sa@news1.goodnet.com> References: <4n12vq$2sg@raffles.technet.sg> <DrCss8.IA9@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phx-ts2-7.goodnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I spoke with Rob Kolstad, President of BSDI, about this issue this morning. And even he seemed to find it difficult to explain this licence. Finally he said to simply use the who command. And I said, 'you mean that the who command will list all "users", that that will tell me how many "users" there are?' And he replied, "close enough" Sincerely, HP meckler@hpl.hp.com (Brian L. Meckler) wrote: >Joseph Doo (joe@spice.com) wrote: >: Can someone kindly help me understand the "user" license in BSDI? >: If a user has "full" access to the system, by that it means >: a shell account, a 1-16 user license means 16 users. >: If a user does not have "full" access to the system, by that >: it means a user does not have shell account and uses the >: BSDI system as a gateway for mail (via smtp), www, a 1-16 >: user license means 1-160 logical users? Therefore, a 1-16 user >: license is sufficient for an organisation of 100 users using the >: BSDI Internet server as a gateway for SMTP and WWW traffic. >I have similiar questions: > -does a 16 user license mean that only 16 shell accounts may > active at any one time? Or does it mean you can only create 16 > accounts? EG: can the same person log on more than 16 times with > the 16 user license? >thanks