Not Another AutoPPP question

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Hi,

Alex Garner wrote:
> At 23:53 5/07/98 , you wrote:
> >> we have just got AutoPPP going on our system and would like to get it
> >> loggin the username into the utmp
> >
> >Hmmm.  Basically, "login" should make pppd put the user name into utmp.
[..]
> [root@vodka /root]# w
> 11:52am  up 5 days,  1:01, 15 users,  load average: 1.10, 1.08, 1.02
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
> /AutoPPP ttyE0    31200             9:12am  2:40m  0.00s   ?     -
> /AutoPPP ttyE1    26400            10:47am  1:05m  0.00s   ?     -
> /AutoPPP ttyE2    26400            10:33am  1:19m  0.00s   ?     -
> /AutoPPP ttyE3    28800             7:36am  4:16m  0.00s   ?     -
> /AutoPPP ttyE4    26400             9:12am  2:40m  0.00s   ?     -
> /AutoPPP ttyE5    26400            10:57am 55:17   0.00s   ?     -

Replace the "@" in the AutoPPP line in login.config with a "-".  You don't
want "/AutoPPP/" to be put into the utmp/wtmp files.

[..]
> programme mgetty is passing info too, I wasn't going to bring it up. But as
> the two versions of mgetty and pppd I use come with redhat 5.1 I e-mailed
> the redhat people and mentioned it to them. In fact I suspect that the
> problem is with the fact that utmp and wtmp are addressed differently as of
> redhat 5.0, and pppd doesn't know about it yet.

Maybe, yes.

> One thing I do notice though is that two entries are written to utmp...
> 
> 5aa      ttyE6                         Mon Jul  6 11:07   still logged in
> /AutoPPP ttyE6        31200            Mon Jul  6 11:06 - 11:07  (00:00)
> hocking  ttyE11                        Mon Jul  6 11:03   still logged in
> /AutoPPP ttyE11       28800            Mon Jul  6 11:03 - 11:03  (00:00)

Sounds as if PPP actually *does* write an entry.  So just make mgetty stop
doing it (remove the "@"), maybe it will work then.

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> That reminds me; Gert, I assme you knew about the changes to wtmp and utmp
> logging? As I thought that pppd does the entries, not mgetty I guess it's
> somewhat academic.

I have no idea whether anything was changed, and if yes, what.  There are
standard functions for this (updwtmp, pututent), so a user program should
not need to care.

gert

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