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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: PPP/LCP sensing getty
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:04:29 -0600 (CST)
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> I have created a version of getty that watches for the first four
> bytes of the LCP leader and exec's pppd (-detach auth) if it sees
> it.  This allows dialup PPP access to FreeBSD boxes from other
> FreeBSD boxes, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95, and MAC's
> without having to go through the pain of login scripting.  I'd like
> to make this generally available, but am not sure how best to do
> so.

Already been done.  I did this six months ago...  I haven't checked
to see if anyone actually did anything with my patches though.

... JG