How do I find out whether the 'mgetty' binary installed from its rpm
is compiled with -DAUTO_PPP or not?  Or going further and
generalizing, how do I find the flags that were used to compile a
binary?

I have configured my machine as a dialin server.  Currently, mgetty
accepts the username and then calls /bin/login to accept and
authenticate the password from the peer.  But I want pppd to
authenticate the peer rather than /bin/login.  So mgetty should call
pppd rather than /bin/login.  The file
/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config has the option for doing this.  But a
comment in the file says that mgetty has to be compiled with
-DAUTO_PPP option for it to work.  I suspect that the currently
installed mgetty binary isn't compiled with -DAUTO_PPP because even
after enabling /AutoPPP/ in login.config, the remote client still gets
a bash prompt after authenticating which indicates /bin/login being
called.

I read the installed mgetty documentation (/usr/share/doc/mgetty) but
it doesn't say anything about the AutoPPP option being used while
compiling or not.
 

-- 
Abhir Joshi
http://education.vsnl.com/abhir/


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