From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 11 13:25:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10934 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:25:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from jennifer.pernet.net (jennifer.pernet.net [205.229.0.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10889; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:24:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (neal@localhost) by jennifer.pernet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA04304; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:17:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:17:35 -0600 (CST) From: Neal Rigney To: Joe Greco cc: john@starfire.mn.org, hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP/LCP sensing getty In-Reply-To: <199611111904.NAA19691@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > I have created a version of getty that watches for the first four > > bytes of the LCP leader and exec's pppd (-detach auth) if it sees > > it. This allows dialup PPP access to FreeBSD boxes from other > > FreeBSD boxes, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95, and MAC's > > without having to go through the pain of login scripting. I'd like > > to make this generally available, but am not sure how best to do > > so. > > Already been done. I did this six months ago... I haven't checked > to see if anyone actually did anything with my patches though. > > ... JG > I tried using the patches, but they have one small problem. My modems stupidly send a connect message in a way that getty sees as a username. So it sits at Password: waiting for test, but only getting LCP. The other times I got it to work(with different modems), it worked like a charm. -- Neal Rigney, PERnet Communications, (409)729-4638 neal@mail.pernet.net