[SunHELP] Maximum users on a Solaris 2.6 server

[Steven B. Parsons]

I have found that maxusers does not appear to be
the correct variable that I am looking for , so from that
point im still searching the web but no luck so far .

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven B. Parsons" <sparsons at columbus.rr.com>
To: <SunHELP at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] Maximum users on a Solaris 2.6 server


> /usr/ccs/bin/nm /kernel/genunix | grep maxusers 
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> [3572]  |         0|       0|NOTY |GLOB |0    |UNDEF  |maxusers
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> root at twister[592]> more /etc/system | grep maxusers
> *               set maxusers=40
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> root at twister[593]>      cat /etc/passwd  |wc
>     3696    4521  216715
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> Im in a situation on a Sun 450 where useradd will not allow
> anymore users to be added to the box.  Im thinking that If I
> change the maxusers variable in /etc/system to say 5000 it will
> correct this problem.  Well after doing a reboot -- -r also.
> 
> Could I get someone else's opinion on this before I make
> this change.  I do appreciate your response .
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steven B. Parsons
> RoadRunner Sr System Engineer
> sparsons at columbus.rr.com
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