Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 17:17:03 -0700 From: Doug Russell <drussell@mail1.internode.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: getty/mgetty Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970204171928.0a17e8ea@mail1.internode.net>
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While we are (sort-of, anyway) on the topic of getty/mgetty, I have a question. I'm trying to set up a couple of dialin lines to do PPP and/or shell access... It works fine, basically except for when a MafiaSoft client (eg Win95) dials in, you have to open the little post-dial terminal window, log in, and type pppd. I know the userland PPP in combination with mgetty will detect the PPP coming from the MS side and drop though to authentication..... So, I grabbed mgetty, and scared myself with it's sheer gargantuan nature... I don't care about all the fax stuff and probably about 90% of what it does... Even the modem initialization is fairly hoaked in my situation, as my Couriers are smart enough to do everything required all by themselves. 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? 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? :-) 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.... Later...... <Doug>
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