Some ideas

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Hi all

We are currently using portslave as a dialin server at a small ISP. I find
that pslave is a bit unstable and the version that is stable doesn't have
all the features we require, so I thought we could switch to mgetty (which
is to my knowledge very stable).

It doesn't have all the features I would like though. I recently started
coding in C and would like to code these features.

1) I would like to use a separate file for authentication than the default
   /etc/passwd and I thought I might as well add PAM support for mgetty as
   that would enable one to use a radius server, different configuration
   files, or anything else you can code. Could someone please just give me
   a few pointers as to what the best way is to do this, as I don't want to
   enforce PAM as a dependancy on everybody.

2) When a user connects I want to run a perl script with info about the
   user that connected as args (username, speed, ip). This script then
   writes to a file that serves the same purpose as utmp/wtmp files and
   also logs the connect.

3) I would like to record the number of bytes that were sent/recv'd when a
   connection is terminated. I believe pppd makes this quite easy.

4) When the connection is terminated it again executes a perl script but
   this time it has args like: username, reason for disconnect, bytes
   transferred.

I would appreciate it alot if I could just get some pointers on where to
start.

Thanks

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