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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP connection from Win95
Date: 6 Jan 1997 02:18:00 GMT
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In article <01bbfa77$0166ff00$3bd393ce@ns.trancer.com>,
"Thomas Greenwalt" <tomg@trancer.com> writes:
> Currently when users login to my system if they login with a pusername, it
> kicks off pppd as the shell. However they still have to use a script to
> feed the username and password to login. Is there someway to set up the
> system to recognize an attempt to connect via PPP and negoiate the login
> through PPP?
I'm not sure what you're asking here. You can either run a 'getty' or
a 'ppp -direct' from /etc/ttys. With a getty, the user will have to
do the login/password bit. With ppp, you ought to enable PAP/CHAP
authentication (unless you're properly firewall'd).
I guess you could write a program that interprets input and figures out
if it's a ppp client or not. If it's a ppp client, it could exec ppp
-direct, otherwise it could wait for a linefeed and run login with
whatever was typed as an argument (as getty does). Should work ok.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....