[H-GEN] Linux Dialin

[Rob Unsworth]

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Rob Unsworth


On 11 May 2001, Michael Anthon wrote:

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> On 10 May 2001 06:04:01 +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> 
> > success. My quesion is does anyone have a dialin setup rinning with
> > auto-ppp or an alternative for me (it really seems extreme to go to
> > radius auth for two users)?
> 
> 
> Many many moons ago I did this.  This may not be of much help, ut a
> couple of things that I recall...
> 1. mgetty has some quite good debug information that it can log.
> Investigate the debug settings for it.
> 2. pppd has excellent debug info also, increase the verbosity level in
> the pppd call from mgetty
> 3. If you want pppd to authenticate using /etc/passwd then you need to
> add an extra line to the secrets file.  Going from memory it's something
> like 
> *    *    ""   *
> although that might not be correct.  You should be able to find the
> right setting in the mgetty documentation.  I seem to recall that I
> missed this particular bit for quite a while while I was setting it up.
> 
> Cheers
> Michael
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