auto_ppp concern

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 DL> I am very pleased that mgetty now supports auto_ppp. My Win95
dial-up
 DL> users are also happy. Many thanks to Gert Doering.

 DL> I do have one concern. Dial-Up_Utils_2.27 is unable to record who
is
 DL> using the ttyS lines. I have used this tool to limit the modem time
of
 DL> my users. They are welcome to telnet in without restiction, but my
 DL> modem pool is *much* smaller than my user population. When a user
 DL> connects with auto_ppp, their ttyS line appears to be registered to
 DL> a_ppp in the mgetty log, utmp, and wtmp file. When auto_ppp is not

Can you call a_ppp a user and limit 'his' time? Or would that kill all
a_ppp users if it killed one? Or could you get mgetty to spawn a small
program that then spawns pppd, that timed the allowed time and then
killed it's child and quit? I do that for terminal logins so that my
users can login with full names (at least the first time :-) and then I
feed the userid to /bin/login as normal. In that case I exec login, but
one could just spawn it.

Len