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From: macleod@adoc.xerox.com (Peter MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: getty and dial-back
Date: 1 Jun 1995 22:05:33 GMT
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There are a couple of getty-replacements for Linux that support dial-back,
i.e. one calls up, logs in, and the system hangs up the phone and calls back
a specific telephone number, for the purposes of security and phone billing.
Are there any such programs ported to FreeBSD?

--Peter