Not Another AutoPPP question

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Yes but the problem with this solution is that your utmp file only shows an
entry for a_ppp so how do you know who the user is?? I have several hundred
user on my system and this workaround isn't going to work. The only reason
I'm so curious about this is becasue it used to work fine with an `@` in
the login.config AutoPPP line. I even had wtmp (last) loggin the connection
speed as well.

What's the latest pppd version atm?

Cheers

Alex!

At 09:21 7/07/98 , you wrote:
>>I should point out that 'last' works fine so one could assume that there is
>>a problem with utmp only. Either pppd is broken and I'll need to try a
>>later version, or mgetty and pppd can't agree on the format of utmp data.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>I can't say whether it will help, but I'm successfully dialing in via win95
>to pppd 2.3.5 with redhat linux 4.2 and:
>
>07/06 14:16:49 yS2  vgetty: experimental test release 0.8.1 / 25Mar98
>07/06 14:16:49 yS2  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.14-Apr02
>
>with this login.config (taken mostly from the suggested line that came with
>1.1.14)
>
>/AutoPPP/       -       a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login modem
>crtscts proxyarp lock 
>
>I get this log:
>
>Jun 15 22:04:43 noyb-gw pppd[22409]: pppd 2.3.5 started by a_ppp, uid 0
>Jun 15 22:04:43 noyb-gw pppd[22409]: Using interface ppp0
>
>and end up with utmp entries reported by last as:
>
>meme     ttyS2        115200           Mon Jun 15 22:04 - 22:06  (00:01)
>a_ppp    ttyS2        115200           Mon Jun 15 22:04 - 22:04  (00:00)
>
>So I get two utmp entries (which doesn't thrill me much), but at least they
>are terminated, and only logged in users appear when I do who or w.
>
>Note that setting up pap-secrets with 2.3.5 is not the same as any of the
>suggestions I've found on various pppd web pages.
>
>I'm using this in /etc/pap-secrets:
>
>meme            noyb-gw.mydomain.com ""              192.168.0.8/29
>
>which I arrived at from the pppd man pages, not from any of the suggested
>pppd setup pages on the web.

 
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