Limits on number os ssh users? X users?

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 16 02:19:12 UTC 2006


William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> Are there limits to how many users can be logged in at once to a Linux
> box via ssh?  Are there limits for X sessions?  Or is it just hardware
> and bandwidth?  If the limits are in hardware, how many users would be
> likely before performance issues or memory outages stopped the increase?
> 
> There's no real reason for the question, just curious.

In recent versions of Linux, you're limited to only 4 billion users,
though I doubt you'd want them all to connect at the same time.  ;-)
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