Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 22:31:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp incoming question Message-ID: <199810070531.WAA00386@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:34:39 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810062129530.15656-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> How come, when you're setting up an incoming (user ppp) connection, you > have to use a /usr/local/bin/ppplogin script? The script just invokes > "ppp -direct incoming", and I wonder why you couldn't just edit that > line into the shell field of the passwd (via vipw). Would there be some > kind of permission problem? I'm thinking of doing something like that, > with chap user IDing, so I wouldn't need separate logins, and I'd want > to eliminate any intervening files if I can. Because the shell field specifies the shell, not its arguments. > If I _have_ to have the file, what permissions and what user/group > should be set on the file? It's not really important, as long as it's executable by the user logging in. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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