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Well, actually it isn't pppd's job to make a utmp/wtmp entry. That job
belongs to mgetty. The 'login' option just tells pppd to authenticate users
with passwords from /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow, as the case may be). There's
a chicken-and-egg problem here because though it's mgetty's job to make
the entry, when dialin users authenticate with PAP/CHAP by that time mgetty
is no longer running.
I believe that using ppp-pam will alleviate this problem. The pam module
used to authenticate should also take care of logging the utmp/wtmp entries
(though reading the documentation I don't see anything which more than
suggests this). Get the ppp-pam package, give it a try, and let me know
if it does indeed make the proper entries.
Peter Iannarelli wrote:
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From: Peter Iannarelli <peter@genxl.com>
To: Debian ISP <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Date: Friday, August 21, 1998
6:39 PM
Subject: PPP and wtmp not working
togetherHello: I
read today that in 2.0, a ppp account is not getting loggedinto
the wtmp file. I decided to check this out and low andbehold
I was unable to get a wtmp entry for a ppp account. I
started to play around in the /etc/mgetty/login.config filewhich
as installed reads
/AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap
+pap login I
changed it to
/AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd
auth -chap +pap login and
/AutoPPP/ - * /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap
+pap login and
/AutoPPP/ - @ /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap
+pap login No login line showed up for
a finger or who commandand there was no wtmp entry
for the account. I then changed the line to
/AutoPPP/ - userId /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap
+pap login An and the entries I was expecting. Can
someone tell me how to configure login.config or ppp tolog
and display active ppp user ids. Peter
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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