Not Another AutoPPP question

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:01:40 +0200

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Hi,

Greg Dickson wrote:
> thats wierd
> it works with a standard login but not with the AutoPPP

That's not weird, that's pretty clear.  For a standard login, mgetty and
"login" handle user authentication, for AutoPPP, "pppd" does it.  So if
pppd and login have different bugs, different results will happen...

> isnt the mgetty parseing this to the login normally
> or is the autoppp geting in too early

In the AutoPPP case, pppd will negotiate the login name, mgetty won't!

gert
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