[ILUG] Quick one lads - Increasing users in telnetd

[Conor Wynne]

I'll try again ;-0

this is /etc/xinetd.d/telnet :

service telnet
{
        flags           = REUSE
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        disable         = yes
}

And since its run via xinetd:

This is the contents of /etc/xinetd.conf

defaults
{
        instances               = 60
        log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
        log_on_success          = HOST PID
        log_on_failure          = HOST
        cps                     = 25 30
}
                                                                                
includedir /etc/xinetd.d

I am not sure what the value 60 is exactly, I assume its 60 xinetd
instances and that each service within has a number of sessions it can
have? Assumption is a great thing.

If I increase this value to say 250, will this increase the number of
allowed telnet sessions? Will I also waste loads of resources? 

I seem to recall that telnetd allowed up to 250 sessions at any one
time, so this is why I am unsure of the value "60".

-- 
Conor Wynne
Dublin,
Irlande.

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