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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.bekkers.com.au!usenet From: Jan Hurst <jhurst@bekkers.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Shell/PPP dialins. Help plz. Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 09:43:15 +0800 Organization: Bekkers Communications Australia Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31BF7233.A66@bekkers.com.au> References: <4oo8o8$6ah@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <david-0406962116110001@ppp27.emeraldis.com> <4p5qrs$1ok_004@news.livenet.net> <Pine.BSI.3.93.960610101142.12856E-100000@picard.chickasaw.com> <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960610140845.436D-100000@Clifford.LiveNet.Net> <4pm9ft$5to@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: jan.bekkers.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Lance Cavener wrote: > > >Again, there is no need for the P infront of the userid. It just happens > >to be BSDi's way to differentiate, just like the S is for SLIP logins, > >but not necessary. > > So it sould still work fine if I remove the P from the username in > /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd right? Stupid question I know, but > I just don't want to screw everything I've done so far up :) > > Lance > To create a PPP account here i simply user adduser and give whatever account name is appropriate, set their shell to /usr/bin/ppp and then add their name to the /etc/ppp.sys file. No need to touch my /etc/netscripts/addr-map as it is already configured for Dynamic PPP. This is manually more or less what the config_ppp script does but forces you to use the username "P?????". Jan