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Re: lot of user



On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 01:14:23AM +0300, Omer wrote:

> Maybe you should reconsider. 2000 users on a machine with
> one partition? You're dead before lift-off.

Why? Size of partition? CPU usage? H.D. usage? Users not necessarly
telnetting there. Main task of the server is web servering, and ftp. Web
servering: Webmail, WebCalendar...
 
> > i have some question in servering area:
> >         - how to use "newusers" with explicit password. they put to password
> >         filed "!". and after they created all the users, i change "!"'es to
> >         "x", everything will be all right, but it is not nice. Is this a
> >         bug, or feature?

> Huh? What?

---
echo test:passtest:1103:50:,,,:/home/users/test:/bin/bash > xxx
newusers xxx
---

this make a line in the /etc/passwd a line something like this: 
test:!:1103:50:,,,:/home/users/test:/bin/bash

and password "!" not valid. *if* i change "!" to "x" the account will be
work fine. i use shadow passwords.

question is, why he put "!" to the password filed?

(note: in the package shadow*.tar.gz /contain passwd stuffs/ in newusers.c
if find a line: `grent.gr_passwd = "!";' it is for change password, i not
found any other code, what is change this variable)
 
> >         - i can do disk quota in the root "/". (i have only one partition,
> >         to root, and for "/home" too)

> Add usrquota and/or grpquota in /etc/fstab for the appropriate fs,
> run quotaon -a at boot, and quotacheck -a every couple of days/weeks
> whatever, and after an improper shutdown.

i done it. and the 2nd reboot, they made me an endless process when
quoutacheck work. (start process)

i made test, what happend: root with single user mode, and strace
quotacheck. well, it made 700MB /quota.user, when i stopped this. just
normal users have quouta. (uid > 1100)
 
> >         - is anybody have a winXX client to Linux's sshd?
 
> SecureCRT - very useful but costs money. There are some free ones
> as well, IIRC. There is also that program from DataFellows, but
> I tried the evaluation - it sucks (but works for that weird beast
> ssh2).

No money, no program? Microsoft Windows riles :-| Not any windows
implementation of Unix's ssh? 
 
-- 
regards,
crown