Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:17:11 +1100 From: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: drussell@mail1.internode.net (Doug Russell) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getty/mgetty Message-ID: <19970205181711.CI15151@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970204171928.0a17e8ea@mail1.internode.net>; from Doug Russell on Feb 4, 1997 17:17:03 -0700 References: <1.5.4.16.19970204171928.0a17e8ea@mail1.internode.net>
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Doug Russell writes:
> So, I grabbed mgetty, and scared myself with it's sheer
> gargantuan nature...
Yes. I've been using mgetty for months now, and wasn't happy
with it at all given that it was only a relatively tiny subset
of its functionality that was needed. At some stage in its
history, it came down with a bad case of featuritis.
> getty would be fine if it did the PPP drop though thing. Is
> there a simpler way of doing all this without having to munch
> around with mgetty?
I believe so since our getty should do it already. I haven't yet
tested it, but will be doing so in the next couple of days, but
many folks maintain that it works.
> Ian is working on a little wrapper program that is going to go
> in the login process somewhere to allow simple shell/ppp access
> depending on the user's mood for advanced users, and straight
> through to PPP for others, but we are trying to not re-invent
> the wheel here... If a simpler method for doing
> some of this already exists, why hack the code, right? :-)
FWIW, I have something that does this already, called 'userls'
(user login service). You can find it at:
http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/UNIX/userls-1.5.tar.gz
It can be hooked into login.conf shell=/path/userls or via
symlinks to a pseudo shell. It is entirely transparent to
network shell logins.
> Anyway, I'm still digging through the source for getty and
> login and some other things right now trying to decide what
> the best way to go about getting this to work the way I want
> it is....
There's no need to involve either.
Regards,
David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet
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