Capturing caller id

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Hi,

Ralph Schleicher wrote:
> GD> So you have to do the line/userid checking inside "/sbin/login", not
> GD> inside mgetty. On Linux, this isn't too hard, as you have the source for
> GD> the login program... (hint, hint) 
> 
> Why not omitting login(1) completely?  I've appended the script
> to login here as anonymous UUCP as a starting point.  The
> corresponding `login.config' entries for UUCP users are

This was one of my reasons behind implementing "login.config" :)

Anyway, the script looks good, I like especially the "give your email
address" part.

How secure *is* perl? I'd never do something like that in /bin/sh, but
perl is rumored to be quite secure...

gert

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