PPP/Mgetty hang-up problem HELP Please????

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Hi,

On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 02:00:56PM -0600, David Hughes wrote:
> Briefly, digiboard was available and we tried to place it into a machine.  Older
> machine was running with a cyclades board.  We ended up yanking the cyclades board
> from the running machine, had about 4 hours of downtime, and brought up the new
> machine.  So the digiboard is not important now, but, I understand your instructions
> below and will follow them when the digiboard comes into play again.

Hmmm.  Do I understand this correctly, you're using the Cyclades card now,
and everything works?  In that case, the problem should be somewhere in
the Digiboard drivers (or maybe the hardware/cabling).

> Might I ask a side issue with ppp?  If you do not have time, please ignore this
> query.  But thought to ask anyway.

Not that I know much about Linux/PPP...

> Now that we have everything working, including PAP, we see that when we list 'who' on
> our loder Slackware machine we could see the username associated with the port.  Now
> we see an   a_ppp    for each dialup user.  Can you aim me towards a HOW-To that will
> let use change this so we can associate a name with the port instead of the   a_ppp?

This is, if I remember right, answered in the mgetty or PPP FAQ.  You
have to call pppd with the "login" argument, and you might need a patch to
pppd to update the correct "utmp/wtmp" files (location changed over time).

gert
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