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Hi,

On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 11:46:31PM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Gert Doering wrote:
> > He didn't, because you can see the "garbage characters" (which are PPP 
> > framing) in /var/log/messages.
> 
> Yes, but at login time. How can /bin/login get passed /AutoPPP/
> otherwise, which is what looks is happening ...

The only way that can happen is by a bad/missing login.config entry -
mgetty will us /AutoPPP/ internally, so there is no difference from a
client sending "/AutoPPP/" verbatim or sending a valid PPP frame at this place.

gert
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