mesg off for /AutoPPP/

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Hi,

Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> I just did a wall, and, one of the PPP sessions:
> 
> Jun 10 19:59:01 vulcan pppd[17501]:  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 0d 0a]
> Jun 10 19:59:01 vulcan pppd[17501]: demuxprotrej: Unrecognized Protocol-Reject for protocol 0xd
> 
> Looks like AutoPPP does not set mesg to off. I didn't find any option
> to pppd for this, so maybe this should be done by mgetty (same for /Fido/,
> maybe add a new settings ?)

Basically, this is not a real mgetty question -- "mesg n" doesn't do more
than setting the tty's permission to "600".

While I think that pppd should change that, you can easily achieve it with
a small wrapper called from login.config.

(IIRC the permissions should be 0600 anyway when waiting for the login
name - or AutoPPP in that case - could anybody please verify this?)

gert
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