login.conf documentation

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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:21:47PM +0200, Dirk Lattermann wrote:
> I suggest the addition of a line to the login.conf example
> file indicating that only up to 9 arguments are passed to
> the login program (configurable in login.c, MAX_LOGIN_ARGS).
> 
> I realized this only after a strange error message from
> pppd when the tenth argument was the number after the kdebug
> option.

Recent versions of mgetty put a warning into the log file...

> Even if this is hidden somewhere in the docs, I think
> mentioning it in the example file won't harm. Maybe the default
> value of MAX_LOGIN_ARGS should be raised, as newer versions of
> pppd seem to need more and more args ;-) ?
> option.

Why not put the pppd options into a file and tell pppd to read that?  One
very rarely needs that many options, and it doesn't increase readability
of login.config...

gert
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