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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: License number
Date: 12 Oct 1996 06:44:05 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <325F0948.27F5@dznet.com>, Doney Jimenez <sysop@dznet.com> writes:
>Hello all.
>Does anybody know for how many users is the license that comes with
>FREEBSD?
>Does FREEBSD have NFS?
>Thanks you all.

Well, I hear that Walnut creek supports over 1200 simultaneous users on a
Pentium 200, so I guess you could say that the practical limit is 1200 users.
As far as limiting the number of users entered in the password file, or in
the system, there isin't anything that I know of, even if their were since you
get the source code for the system you could obviously take it out.