Re: help with mgetty..

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Mike Patterson, you wrote:
> 
> 
> (setting up a linux box connectable to by a Win95 box)
> 
> >> Quick and to the point... I have some docs I got from 
> >> "http://www.buoy.com/isp/mgetty.html"; that talk about "policy.h" and
> >> "login.config"... Neither of which I have. any ideas? 
> >
> >First, you need to install the mgetty package. The policy.h you don't need
> >because the mgetty package is pre-built(correctly). The login.config
> 
> Ok.. I'm really close now. Really, really close. I dial in and I get this:
> 
> mgetty FATAL: yS2  login: '/etc/mgetty/login.config' must be root/0600
> 3/14 01:33:42 yS2  login: '/etc/mgetty/login.config' must be root/0600: Invalid argument
> 3/14 01:33:42 ##### data dev=ttyS2, pid=348, caller=none, conn='38400' name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='/AutoPPP/'

What that is telling you is that you have the wrong owner and 
permissions on the file.
chown root /etc/mgetty/login.config
chmod 600 /etc/mgetty/login.config

and you should be in good shape

Tim

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