AutoPPP misery

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Recompile pppd!

On our redhat 5.2 system, the precompiled binary pppd acted just as you
described. I loaded the sources from redhat 5.2 and recompiled. Now it works.

System Administrator wrote:

> About a month ago i had posted a thread about when a who or w
> command is issued on a redhat 5.2 box AutoPPP users fail to show up as
> being logged in. I left an incident with redhat but still haven't
> heard back anything. So I updated to 6.0 to see if it would resolve
> the problem. It didn't. I want to go over my configurations one last time
> to make sure it's not me.
>
> int the login.config file the autoppp line reads:
>
> /AutoPPP/ -     - /usr/sbin/pppd login
>
> the /etc/ppp/options file:
>
> asyncmap 0
> crtscts
> lock
> modem
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> proxyarp
> ms-dns 209.31.54.4
> ms-dns 209.31.54.5
>
> and /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX:
>
> 209.31.54.5:209.31.54.36
>
> And finally heres a little sample of the logs:
>
> 07/30 11:19:23 yC4    login: use login config file
> /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config
> 07/30 11:19:23 yC4   match: user='/AutoPPP/', key=''
> 07/30 11:19:23 yC4   match: user='/AutoPPP/', key='/FIDO/'
> 07/30 11:19:23 yC4   match: user='/AutoPPP/', key=''
> 07/30 11:19:23 yC4   match: user='/AutoPPP/', key='/AutoPPP/'*** hit!
> 07/30 11:19:23 yC4   calling login: cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', argv[]='pppd
> login'
> 07/30 11:19:23 ##### data dev=ttyC4, pid=1287, caller='none',
> conn='33600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd',
> user='/AutoPPP/'
>
> Nathan
>
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