mgetty and win98

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> The problem I am having, is I can't seem to connect to my Redhat 6.0
> linux server with a win98 machine by simply plugging in the user name
> and password, and phone number of course.

First: If you want to login as regular user to your linux machine you have
to use pap.
But: be warned, there is no password encryption. And, This is not very
handsome.
RedHat6.0: /usr/doc/ppp-2.3.7/sample/pap-secrets:
# INBOUND CONNECTIONS
#client         hostname        <password>      192.168.1.1
# If you add "auth login -chap +pap" to /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config,
# all users in /etc/passwd can use their password for pap-authentication.
#
# Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd
#*      hostname        ""

Second: Here is a solution that works. It uses chap. You don't have to chmod
your pppd.
You don't have to manipulate passwd and /etc/ppp/options. You don't have
to compile anything. RedHat 6.0 binarys work.
Here is my configuration (it's out from the german magazine c't 25/98
p.218):

change login.config:
/AutoPPP/ -    a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/dialin

make a new file /etc/ppp/dialin:
# /etc/ppp/dialin
# wait for caller to begin ppp Handshake
silent
# caller must authenticate himself
auth
# authentification with chap
+chap
# no ipx-protocol
#-ipx-protocol
# give first and secondary Nameserver to caller
#dns-addr 192.168.1.1
#dns-addr 192.168.1.1
ms-dns 192.168.1.1
ms-wins 192.168.1.1
# caller is given following IP
:192.168.1.15
# this Linux-machine shouldn't do his default IP-Traffic
# over dialin-connection
-defaultroute
# IP from caller should be known in local ethernet
proxyarp

/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# client        server  secret                  IP addresses
pppuser         *       password                *
PPPUSER         *       password                *

Remeber: the login name and the password is just for the ppp connection.
If you want to have samba-access for example, your login name from the win98
machine
is important. If samba gives share access to this login name you will see it
in the network
window on you win98 machine. This works fine!

Settings for Windows:
Only activate TCP/IP and NetBIOS (if you want samba access).
You can use the win98 default settings for the TCP/IP protocol.

For debugging: See /var/log/messages
Here is a logfile of a successful connection:
mgetty: data dev=modem, pid=4242, caller='XXXX',
conn='9600/V.22b/2400/MNP5', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', user='/AutoPPP/'
pppd: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
pppd: Using interface ppp0
pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
pppd: CHAP peer authentication succeeded for pppuser
pppd: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
pppd: local  IP address 192.168.1.1
pppd: remote IP address 192.168.1.15

Hope this helps...
       Stefan

email: theurer@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de