No login prompt

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Hi,

Mikael Jokela wrote:
> Is it possible to configure mgetty so that it
> doesn't print a login prompt at all? I'd like
> mgetty to lauch a bbs application if someone
> calls in. PPP calls already launch autoppp and
> it works fine.

#define ENV_TTYPROMPT in mgetty.c (but then you won't get AutoPPP either -
for that, mgetty needs to read in the login name).

> I could do this so that users type some login name
> for bbs use but anyway I'd like like mgetty to be totally
> transparent for bbs users. How can I do this?

Pass the login name entered in mgetty to the BBS program.

> I have another problem, too. Sometimes (often) when
> mgetty prints its login prompt, some of the prompt
> and text information (might be a few letters in the
> middle of a word, or something) is lost. Why is this?

I've seen this a number of times on on-board serial ports of Pentium-1
mainboards.  No idea what causes this, but when the users in question
moved to a plug-in serial card, the problem went away.

gert

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