AutoPPP q's

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Hi,

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 06:27:55PM +0200, Sarel J. Botha wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how mgetty + pppd + autoppp all work together
> nicely. Here's how I understand it:
>  - Win machine dials in, mgetty sees it wants ppp and runs the command in
>    loign.config.

... runs the command in the "/AutoPPP/ ..." line.

>  - If a non-win machine dials in, it doesn't auto-sense ppp, so login is
>    run, the user gets a prompt and the user's shell in /etc/passwd is run.
> 
> Please set me right if that's not the way it works.

That's mostly correct.

> What OSs do use autoppp and which don't?

Hmmm, most OSes could use both.  Default for Linux clients is to use a
chat script for connecting, so you could do a "normal login" afterwards
without hassles - default for WinXX is "no chat script", so AutoPPP is a
lot easier for those.

> Could I make this line: "* - - /bin/login @" the same as the AutoPPP line,
> because all users dialing in will use ppp.

Depends on the clients - might work.  Just try it.

gert

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