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Re: lot of user



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

tamas gervai wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> 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?

>         - 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.

>         - if i make lot of users (>2000) in one machine, it is not slow down
>         the login (ftp/telnet/ssh) process?
> 
No. Well, unless they all try to logon at once (ssh can be cpu intensive
especially if using high levels of compression. Restrict to 5).

>         - 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).

>         - how convinient to manage lot of users in a linux box? (~400 new
>         student in new year) how to delete expired persons?
> 
freshmeat has some programs specificly designed to handle lots of users,
and they were actually written for a school-environment (which you come
from, I suppose). Search for those.

>         - how can i force to change password to new users?
> 
Set the password to expire. (You can use whatever management
tools you have if you are not familier with this. I'd
guess linuxconf?).

> regards,
> crown

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