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Hello Everybody.
I am kind of a newbee in setting up mgetty for AutoPPP
and kind of confused about it.

If you consider that there is more information about mgetty  AutoPPP
configuration  that I need to read please point me at it.


I have read about AutoPPP  from
http://www.buoy.com/isp/mgetty.html
and
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrdennis/mgetty.html




I use the RedHat 5.2 Linux Distribution  with mgetty-1.1.14-5 rpm
In /etc/inittab  the entry is this:
s1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -n4 -x2 /dev/ttyS1 /etc/gettydefs

My modem is a Multitech 28.8 and it works fine with minicom in ttyS1
but win95 clients dont get in , I thinking to use mgetty to dial to my
computer
and get to internet , i have an 3com card on it. But i cant get logged ,

i use Terminal Window after dialing
and put my pppuser logon but get those error messages.
?Do i have to set  the pppd for any particular owner or permitions?

Jul  3 16:54:09 usri04 mgetty[481]: data dev=ttyS1, pid=481,
caller='none', conn='LAPM COMPR
ESSED', name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='pppuser'
Jul  3 16:54:11 usri04 PAM_pwdb[481]: (login) session opened for user
pppuser by (uid=0)
Jul  3 16:54:11 usri04 login[481]: DIALUP AT ttyS1 BY pppuser
Jul  3 16:54:11 usri04 login[481]: LOGIN ON ttyS1 BY pppuser
Jul  3 16:54:11 usri04 PAM_pwdb[481]: (login) session closed for user
pppuser
Jul  3 16:54:12 usri04 pppd[481]: must be root to run -pppd, since it is

not setuid-root
Jul  3 16:54:12 usri04 pppd[481]: Exit.

Please help.
Thank you.