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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!cfi.org!dogface!catburg.UUCP!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: ppp via getty? Message-ID: <2a2fheINN58@catburg.UUCP> From: boyd@catburg (Boyd Faulkner) Date: 19 Oct 1993 23:41:04 -0500 Organization: CatBurg Keywords: ppp getty NNTP-Posting-Host: catburg.uucp X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Lines: 22 Hi, We have a dilemma. We have ppp running well. Now, we would like to have ppp available on login! This is simple enough if you are willing to sacrifice a port for ppp logins. Is there a way to make ppp work with getty/login so that it is invoked on successful login to a predefined ppp user? Other users log into my machine so I can't dedicate the port. We have tried several means. Unfortunately we can't get ppp to attach to /dev/tty! (Unless we make the ppp user uid 0 in which case the machine boots!) :( Has anyone tried this?!?! Has anyone had success?!?! Thanks, Boyd -- ============================================================================= || "Home is where the cats are" || || Boyd R. Faulkner || || boyd@catburg || =============================================================================