mgetty failed login

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Hi,

On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 10:00:41AM -0400, Greg wrote:
> Could someone tell me what went wrong with this
> ppp login from a win98 dial in. How or why did
> mgetty use the AutoPPP as the user I tried rem'ing
> out the line for a AutoPPP log in and still got the
> user= AutoPPP

login.config does not contain a line starting with "/AutoPPP/".  Insert 
one, as I have recommended yesterday, then come back.

If it still doesn't work, post a useful mgetty logfile, taken with "-x5".

> lnx mgetty[333]: data dev=ttyS3, pid=333, caller='none', conn='38400',
> name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='/AutoPPP/'

This already tells everything: mgetty has recognized the PPP call, but
there is no line in login.config telling mgetty how to handle this (or the
permissions of login.config are bad), and so the call is handed to
/bin/login.

(Just as a side note: look at the *mgetty* log file, not at the global
syslog file - the mgetty file contains much more information).

gert

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