Re: mgetty

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Jason Killen wrote:
> 
> Is anyone using mgetty??  Did anyone have problems getting it setup??
> (I ask only because I tried to set it up on my redhat system and it screwed
> up things like login.)
> 
> Thanks for the input.
> 
> Jason Killen                                     Question Stupidity
> Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans      RPS : better living through
> jkillen@tinuviel.cs.wcu.edu                         world domination
> 
> 

I use mgetty religiously and love it! A truly fine getty. If you 
switched from a regular getty to mgetty your problem is likely because
you've got your modem set to auto-answer. mgetty will only become
confused if the modem answers automatically. mgetty wants to issue
it's own answer command to the modem. (When used with Caller-ID,
this allows mgetty to only answer calls from a predefined set of
numbers!) mgetty can also auto-recognize PPP and start up PPP instead
of /bin/login so that you can authenticate solely with PAP and CHAP.
If you need help getting mgetty working, let me know.

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com