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> > > dialer?), but the reason that some PPP packages don't understand a
> > > regular Unix login sequence but wanna use PAP or CHAP instead doesn't
> > > sound totally unreasonable.  At least, everything is hidden inside a
> > 
> > If you use PAP/CHAP only, don't even start getty over this line,
> > just start pppd on it directly.
> 
> What happens if that modem isn't a dedicated modem, and can be used by
> non-PPP users?

Then use PPP wchich understand login/password :-)
The problem with auto-detecting is line noise. It is possible that
some incoming junk looks like packet, detecting procedure must be
smart enough and detect several long packets in sequence to be shure,
not just one small packet.

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