> From: Cas Caswell
> To: HP3000-L
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Incoming telnet restrictions?
> Date: Wednesday, March 05, 1997 4:56PM
>
> Subject: Incoming telnet restrictions?

...deletia...

>  So to configure max session count we have several possible options:

...deletia...

> 2: Some other flat file: Fairly easy to do, but puts us into the YAFFS
>                          (Yet Another Flat File Syndrome) that Unix users
>                          have complained about for configuration.

How about inetdcnf.net.sys?  Just add the max session count parameter to the
end of the telnet service line.  This would be the standard inetd way of
passing parameters to external daemons; dunno about internal ones.

Sysadmins already have to visit inetdcnf to enable telnet, so this isn't really
YAFFS.  ;-)
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