Re: Help! mgetty & ppp won't play together

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Bob Billson wrote:
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> # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd
> #*      molec3  ""      *
> rich    molec3  ""      *            <--the only user allowed to run ppp
Substitute a real username and your machine name here.
> 
> # UserIDs that cannot use PPP at all. Check your /etc/passwd and add any
> # other accounts that should not be able to use pppd!
> guest   molec3  "*"     -
> master  molec3  "*"     -
> root    molec3  "*"     -
> support molec3  "*"     -
> stats   molec3  "*"     -
> 
>         ^^^^^^
> Is this column supposed to be the local machine name?  I can't find it
> documented anywhere.

Yes, it is.  It does seem to be very poorly documented.  I think once
you fix that, you'll be in business.
> 
> I heard that sometimes AutoPPP doesn't work right and if you remove the
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file altogether, it works.  I tried doing that.  ppp
> continues complaining about not finding any secret (password).
> 
Yes, I think that used to work, but they tightened up on it.  :-)