Re: TTY Count

2021-06-18 Thread Theo de Raadt 
Brian Empson  wrote:

> What is the proper way to increase the number of TTYs available on the
> system? I have alot of users logged in on a machine and we run out of 
> TTYs every once in awhile.

I guess you mean ptys.

By default the system ships with 1 group of ptys (a group is 62), and
can support up to 15 sets (for a total of 992)

This is partially documented in the pty(4) manual page.

You can add additional sets by running MAKEDEV, this adds 3 more sets:

# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV pty1 pty2 pty3

TTY Count

2021-06-18 Thread Brian Empson 
What is the proper way to increase the number of TTYs available on the 
system? I have alot of users logged in on a machine and we run out of 
TTYs every once in awhile.


Thanks,

Brian