auto_ppp concern

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> From: David Lane <dlane@www.powell.k12.ky.us>
> To: mgetty@muc.de
> Subject: auto_ppp concern
> Date: Friday, 24 January 1997 11:22 PM
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> I am very pleased that mgetty now supports auto_ppp. My Win95 dial-up
> users are also happy. Many thanks to Gert Doering.

Yes, my sentiments exactly. Good one Gert!

As for you problem, you should read the comments in the login.config file
more closely...

> # Format:
> #       username userid utmp_entry login_program [arguments]

> # utmp_entry is what will appear in the "who" listing. Use "-" to not
> #  set an utmp entry (a must for /bin/login), use "@" to set it to the
> #  username entered. Maximum length is 8 characters.

Change the /AutoPPP/ line to read:
/AutoPPP/ -     -       /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login

Where the two hyphens are the important part. As per the comments, this
allows the PPPd to make the utmp entry instead of mgetty.

Alas, you will still have problems if you are working off the owner of the
dialup line, as the PPPd runs setuid root, root owns the dialup line of all
people who use AutoPPP (I found this out for myself the hard way today). If
anyone knows of a workaround, I'd love to hear it, but this isn't the place
I guess...

Anyway I hope this helps

Regards

Andrew