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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Automatic PPP-detecting getty and pppd!!!
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:56:10 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199606212013.WAA22783@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 21, 96 10:13:17 pm
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> 
> As Joe Greco wrote:
> 
> > > There are patches contributed sitting in the GNATS queue already.
> > 
> > Do they modify pppd to correctly log users in, do they handle it as a new
> > gettytab capability, etc?
> 
> j@uriah 269% query-pr 1019
[...]
> >Number:         1019
> >Originator:     David Muir Sharnoff
> >Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
> >Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 12 02:00:02 PST 1996
> 
> You should be able to get the PR via the Web interface, or drop me
> a mail if you want.

Looks to me like it is a bit of a hack that uses a pseudo-user to log the
user in via login(1) ...  there is some merit to that but I am not sure I
care for the solution, beyond the fact that it also works.

... Joe

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