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Re: lot of user





tamas gervai wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 
If, for any reason, that partition is filled up...
Even if you don't have telnet access this could happen.
And judging from the ssh question, there _is_ indeed local
shell access. That way you can mount /home noexec,nosuid (good idea),
etc.

[snip]
 
> > >         - 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)
> 
I use this on several machines, one with over 40GB of storage,
and quite a few users owning various files (it's not a database
server, so no ONE big file...). It works fine. Seems to me you
got bitten.

> > >         - 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?
> 
Uh, my bad. Of course there are free implementation.
Mainly that plugin (the name eludes me right now) that
the ssh documentation mentions. However, I really liked
CRT, so the obvious next step for win32 machines was
SecureCRT (of course, nothing is better than ssh-agent/ssh etc).

> --
> regards,
> crown

Same.

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                      Omer Efraim
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