Open tty limit of 32?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:16:05PM +0200, nocturnal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Recently, helping a friend setup a shellserver, i noticed some kind of 
> limit on the number of open ttys. I count 32 open ttys by remote users 
> before users start getting locked out. Any user trying to login after 
> "ls -la /dev/tty* | grep -v wheel | wc -l" starts returning 32 get the 
> following message along with a distorted terminal that is completly locked.
> "Warning: no access to tty (Bad file descriptor)."
> 
> There are random users using ttys, some two ttys and others maybe more 
> but it's always 32 open. I almost wanted to post this on hackers because 
> i've searched the net like a maniac without answers and no one on irc 
> could answer me. I've also tried searching through the src/sys for 
> anything defined to 32.

You forgot to mention your FreeBSD version and details of your kernel
configuration (ISTR in older versions there was a user-defined maximum
number of ptys specified in the kernel config)

Kris
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