Using whereis, find, grep and locate is how I know it is not on my
system. PPPlogin is a binary on my system. I have all the appropriate
lines uncommented in login.config (and commented) but when mgetty
answers the phone it ignores all these and still use /bin/login. I've
been trying to work out where else or why it may be ignoring this......
Mehmet Yousouf wrote:
>
> It should be in /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/ practice using "whereis", "find",
> "locate" and "grep" - it's worth the effort. If you have ppplogin you can
> edit it and change the line calling up pppd to include "auth -chap +pap
> login".
>
> You don't need ppplogin or paplogin for pap to work though - just
> uncomment the appropriate line in login.config.
>
> regards, Mehmet
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Craige McWhirter wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply :)
> >
> > As best as I can see, /bin/login is correct. AutoPPP is uncommented and
> > set to pppligon and all references to /bin/login are commented out. I
> > don't appear to have the file paplogin though so I'll have to find what
> > package it some as part of.
> >
> > Mehmet Yousouf wrote:
> > >
> > > What have you got in your mgetty login.config file?
> > > You should have a line like AutoPPP - - (path to ppplogin)
> > > ppplogin I believe is a linuxconf thingie and I suspect it doesn't install
> > > it into any directories, so you would have to copy it into place......
> > > I also suspect ppplogin isn't set up for PAP .... there is another one
> > > called paplogin.
> > > Also check the bottom of the login.config file for the /bin/login.
> > > Regards, Mehmet
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> > >
> > > > Resent as I never the original come up on the list
> > > >
> > > > > > Morning. I'm trying to get mgetty to answer the phone with ppplogin
> > > > > > instead of login so that I can use PAP authentication. I've followed the
> > > > > > "Serial HowTo", "PPP HowTo" and an excellent "PAP Server HowTo" in issue
> > > > > > 38 of Linux Gazette to no avail. When ever my server answers the phone
> > > > > > it is still using /bin/login which means that if I bring up a terminal
> > > > > > on connection I can login and start PPP but this will not be good enough
> > > > > > for my users.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > After I've followed those aforementioned three documents I'm at a loss
> > > > > > to find why /bin/login is still being used when all reference to
> > > > > > /bin/login has been removed from all relelvant files I know of.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Craige.
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