maxlogins

[Darryl Clarke]

On 4/29/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to understand the 'maxlogins' option in /etc/security/limits.conf
>
> As usual in Linux world, the documentation is less than stellar. I've
> found a dozen documents and they are really a dozen copies of the same
> document. They all say the same thing:
>
> maxlogins -- Maximum number of logins for this user or group.
>
> Okay... so does that mean that if I set "maxlogins  5" then the user can
> only login 5 times in their life and then they can never login again? Or
> does it mean that they can only do 5 login attempts wrong? If so, does
> the system ever reset to let them them login again? How long does that take?
>
> I would be grateful if anyone here knows the answer and can tell me.


It's a limit on the number of concurrent logins a user can have.

Typically these resource limitations are used on server environments.


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