diff --git a/xCAT/postscripts/remoteshell b/xCAT/postscripts/remoteshell
index a5250d542e..bfc67f4bd9 100755
--- a/xCAT/postscripts/remoteshell
+++ b/xCAT/postscripts/remoteshell
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ then
         #delete all occurance of the attribute and then add xCAT settings
         sed -i '/X11Forwarding /'d /etc/ssh/sshd_config
         echo "X11Forwarding yes" >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config
+        # delete all MaxStartups settings and use default value
         sed -i '/MaxStartups /'d /etc/ssh/sshd_config
-        echo "MaxStartups 1024" >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config
 
     if [ "$SETUPFORPCM" = "1" ]; then
         if [[ $OSVER == sle* ]];then