autoppp and /bin/login

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On Thu, 27 May 1999, Chris Hailes wrote:

> >
> I am doing both ppp (PAP) and user terminal logins as you describe
> successfully with the standard pppd binary delivered in Redhat 5.2.  I did
> the following steps (possibly not all are essential).
> 1)     renamed .ppprc      mv /etc/ppp/.ppprc   /etc/ppp.rc.mv
> 2)     comment all lines in /etc/ppp/options
> 3)      Place your options in /etc/ppp/options.ttyxx file
> 4)     in inittab:    ...respawn /sbin/mgetty  ttySxx 57600
> 
> I believe pppd reads the port from the command line first rather than last.
> In this case it reads all the command line options from options.ttyxx as you
> require.
> I can send more of the Linix files to you directly if you require.
> Chris
> 
> 

Thank you. Both default terminal and AutoPPP are working great now.

Cheers,

Nathan