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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Allen Hyer <allenh@wtrt.net>
cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PPP Terminal Server
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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Allen Hyer wrote:

> At 01:56 PM 12/19/96 -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Allen Hyer wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, here is what I want to do.  I would like to make a FreeBSD box to be a
> >> terminal server.  The only protocol I need is PPP.
> 
> Yes, all I want is PPP, but I failed to mention in my previous post that I
> want to use PAP authentication, and use the user accounts on the other
> machine for the lookup.  Can I do this with what you describe above?

You can use mgetty, or use Joe Greco's getty.  Both will present a login: 
prompt, and if they receive PPP LCP startup info, exec pppd with appropriate
flags to do authentication using the pw file.  You need the latest pppd 
and getty.  

The advantage in doing it this way is that you can dial in to the machine 
as a normal user if you need to, e.g. to do maintenance when you are at a 
friend's place and they only have a 2400 modem with an XT :-)  If you had 
to run PPP and had no PPP software, you'd be stuck.

You can find Joe's stuff by searching the 
archives of hackers 
with the keywords "auto and getty and ppp and greco".  Or, I can package 
the replacement binaries etc which you need.  I run getty, not mgetty,  I 
could not figure out how to configure mgetty.

Are you running 2.1.5/6 or 2.2?

Danny