MAX_ALLOW_USERS

[Randy Zagar]

Or, even better, make AllowUser support netgroups.

But I think, from an architecture perspective, that James is right... 
This kind of parameter should be in sshd_config unless there's a 
kernel-related limitation that can't be avoided.

-RZ

Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> 
>>Hey everyone,
>>
>>I have been using sftp for quite some time now and we have just hit 256
>>sftp users. Line 21 of servconf.h reads:
>>
>>#define MAX_ALLOW_USERS         256     /* Max # users on allow list. */
>>
>>I am curious why this is in a header file and not something that is in
>>sshd_config that can be changed without recompile?
>>
> 
> 
> You have 256 users listed in AllowUser ?!  Maybe you need to consider
> moveing to a denylist instead.
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 
>>Thanks in advance!
>>
>>--
>>James Dennis
>>Harvard Law School
>>
>>"Not everything that counts can be counted,
>>and not everything that can be counted counts."
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