Auto_PPP and userid

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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, admin wrote:

> We have mgetty 1.1.9 installed and working, intel R.H. 5.0, except for
> the following.
> When a user logs on, instead of their username displaying, the "a_ppp"
> from mgetty's login.config displays.
> 
> We have the same version of mgetty on intel R.H. 4.2 and it displays the
> username and Not the a_ppp from the login.config file.

This is probably because you are using shadow passwords, redhat has
finally released a pamified version of pppd for redhat 5. Its available in
the errata the filename is ppp-2.3.3-2.i386.rpm. That should hopefully
get it working again.

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