I realized immediately after I sent this message that my 
second question below makes no sense.  I have since found 
that I can supply a value such as 10000:1:10000 which
is pretty close to disabling any MaxStartups limitation.

I am still curious if there is a way to truly disable
the option altogether.

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:45:43AM -0700, Karl Amrhein wrote:
> I cannot find adequate documentation regarding the MaxStartups 
> configuration option.
> 
> 1. Is there any way to effectively disable MaxStartups?
> 
> 2. What are the legal ranges of values for MaxStartups?
>    The default is 10:30:60.  A value of 100:30:60 is not
>    accepted by the sshd -- it will fail to start.

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