Not Another AutoPPP question

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Hi,

Alex Garner wrote:
> 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.

That sounds like a PPP bug.  "@" in the login.config line will only put
"/AutoPPP/" in the utmp/wtmp files, not the real user name ('cause mgetty
doesn't know!):

So actually it should work *better* without the "@" (because you don't get
double wtmp entries).

gert


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