max available logins

Hakon Ingvaldsen

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May 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/1/97

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We have a problem: We are not allowed to run more than two (non-root)
sessions (windows) a time. We have changed maxlogins in
/etc/security/login.cfg, but that seems to have no effect. We use AIX 4.2.
Any suggestions?

Haakon

Ron van Schaik

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Hakon,
Your problem is the number of user allowed by AIX .
Default for AIX is two users but you can change this by:

# smit <enter>

then select
"System Environments" <enter>
"Change/show number of licensed users" <enter>

In this menu you can change the number of users.
You will have to reboot the machine to validate this.

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William Crighton

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May 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/2/97

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Hakon Ingvaldsen wrote:
>
> We have a problem: We are not allowed to run more than two (non-root)
> sessions (windows) a time. We have changed maxlogins in
> /etc/security/login.cfg, but that seems to have no effect. We use AIX 4.2.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Haakon

is it a aix user license issue? How many people is your aix licensed
for? with hpux the number of interfaces (ethernet,fddi,console,etc) is
licensed, not the number of logins. when you changed the number of
maxlogins did you have to recompile the kernel?

just trying to help.
-ebill

Disclaimer:
I'm just browsing the aix stuff - i'm not an expert on aix.

Bill Horn

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May 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/5/97

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second attempt ...

for what it is worth ... chlicense and lslicense are part of the
bos.sysmgt.loginlic fileset ... if you didn't install this fileset then
you won't be able to run them ... Bill

Jaime Vazquez

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May 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/5/97

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In article <3369E4...@ntrek.com>, William Crighton <eb...@ntrek.com> writes:
> Hakon Ingvaldsen wrote:
> >
> > We have a problem: We are not allowed to run more than two (non-root)
> > sessions (windows) a time. We have changed maxlogins in
> > /etc/security/login.cfg, but that seems to have no effect. We use AIX 4.2.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Haakon
>
> is it a aix user license issue? How many people is your aix licensed
> for? with hpux the number of interfaces (ethernet,fddi,console,etc) is
> licensed, not the number of logins. when you changed the number of
> maxlogins did you have to recompile the kernel?

Shucks, you NEVER have to recompile the AIX kernel. Just run the
command "smit chlicense" to reset the max logins. You will need to reboot
to have the new limit take effect. BTW, you have paid for the extra licenses
you are trying to get, haven't you?

>
> just trying to help.
> -ebill
>
> Disclaimer:
> I'm just browsing the aix stuff - i'm not an expert on aix.

Regards.
--
Jaime Vazquez e-mail address: ja...@austin.ibm.com
RISC System/6000 OEM Consulting Services, IBM-Austin/9810
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