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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!daily-planet.execpc.com!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!io.org!reptiles.org!westonia!news From: mark@email.icacomp.com (Mark) Subject: Re: Question: 'passwd' and PPP accounts... X-Nntp-Posting-Host: node10.icacomp.com Message-ID: <DHx96n.KMq@westonia.com> Sender: news@westonia.com Organization: Westonia BBS X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 References: <jasonb-0911950917220001@jasonb.sckans.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 08:26:32 GMT Lines: 27 jasonb@jinx.sckans.edu (jasonb) wrote: >I am playing with NetBSD 2.0.1 and am having trouble with the change >passwd command. The system is set up with each >user having two separate accounts -- one for shell access and the other >for PPP access. The PPP account is the shell userid with a 'P' as a >prefix (i.e. user "jasonb" logs in as "Pjasonb" for PPP access). This >works slickly and drops the user directly into PPP after login, but one >problem... Why would you use another account for PPP user? Let's say you have to add SLIP support, are you going then to add third account for the user to use SLIP? If you have 1000 users, it's a mess! Instead make one account with regular shell, and add this user to /etc/ppp.sys file. Add him to netdial group and let him or his script type ppp at the prompt and it'll initiate the PPP sesion! This way you have one account and shell/ppp/slip! Regards, *--------------------------------ICA-Canada-On-Line---> Toronto's lowest cost Internet Service Provider Full SLIP account with 2hrs/day for as low as $149/year! http://www.icacomp.com - telenet: 204.92.239.195 voice: 905-281-3501 - data: 905-276-9894