Re: help with login.conf session limiting

From: Farid Hajji (me_at_farid-hajji.de)
Date: 11/28/03

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    To: "Julian C. Dunn" <lists+freebsd@aquezada.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:13:25 +0100

    On Friday 28 November 2003 04:47 am, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
    > I wonder if any of you have ever tried to restrict the # of simultaneous
    > sessions on a FreeBSD box using login.conf. I'm trying to use the
    > 'sessionlimit' but it appears to be doing diddly squat. The class in
    > question is the following "subshell" one:

    login.conf is only used by login(1), not by sshd.
    Try setting UseLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
    if you want sshd to use login, and therefore these
    settings. Beware: this is NOT recommended.

    > - Julian 

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