From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 20 15:36:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA21983 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbucket.edmweb.com (bitbucket.edmweb.com [204.244.190.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21970 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by bitbucket.edmweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA00205; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:35:03 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:34:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Reid To: Joe Greco cc: isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Automatic PPP-detecting getty and pppd!!! In-Reply-To: <199606202154.QAA29533@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Okay all of you who have been wanting a way to get around loading > "Microsoft Dial Up Scripting" on your Windows 95 boxes... now FreeBSD > can detect a PPP session inside getty, and deal with it appropriately! How is this different from simply setting /etc/ttys to run pppd instead of getty? Does it give a login prompt to people who aren't using PPP? If my users don't want/need a login prompt, are there any advantages to using the new getty instead of directly running pppd? Forgive me if this is a stupid or self-answering question. ===================================================================== | Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | | Email: steve@edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | | PGP (2048/9F317269) Fingerprint: 11C89D1CD67287E68C09EC52443F8830 | | -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, TANSTAAFL, IANAL. -- | ===================================================================:)