PPP server on Solaris using mgetty and pppd

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Hi,

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:39:31PM +0000, Keen Young wrote:
> I've been trying to set up a dialin PPP server using mgetty 1.2 and ppp
> 2.3.5. When dialing in from a Win95 machine I get the folloing in the
> mgetty logfile:
> 
> 
> 01/27 17:05:16 a/4    login: use login config file
> /export/local/mgetty1.2/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config
> 01/27 17:05:16 a/4  login:
> '/export/local/mgetty1.2/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config' must be
> root/0600: Invalid argument

!!!

> Why is it falling back to /bin/login instead of using login.config?

It's telling you.

> Obviously it's a permissions problem, but I can't figure out what to
> change.

"Must be root/0600".  So do "chown root, chmod 600" to that file.

> Here's the login.config with permissions 644 owned by root:

If you already know that it's 644, why don't you change it to 600 now?
I don't understand this...

gert
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