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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:07:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Luke Cowell <systems@imag.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: access through modem
Message-ID:  <14831.46858.679894.899373@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <86181639@toto.iv>

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Luke Cowell writes:
> I have a freebsd 4.1 system complete with modem. I want to be able to dial 
> in and administrate the box.  How do I configure dialin access to take a 
> tty ? is there a how to on this somewhere ? cc me in reply

Try editing /etc/ttys, and changing the "off" to "on" for the four
dialup lines, then send a HUP to init. After you dial in, you can find
out which tty you are on, turn the others off, and HUP init again.

The man pages for ttys and getty might be worth a look as well.

	<mike



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