Changing comm parameters in mgetty

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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:04:26PM -0500, Robert J. Brown wrote:
> >>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:
> 
>     >> I am trying to use mgetty to answere a visa terminal.
> 
>     Gert> Huh?  Could you shed some light on that?  If it's
>     Gert> interesting, I might consider adding code for it...
> 
> This is one of those little "slide the card thru" thingies that they
> have in retail stores to process credit cards.  They read the magnetic 
> stripe on the card and call a phone number to send the card info to to 
> get credit approval.  To get more info, look at http://www.hks.net/;
> they make software to let a Unix system emulate those credit card
> terminals so you can hook point of sale terminals up to a central
> credit clearing server, or to do e-commerce on the web.

While this sounds interesting, I still don't see where mgetty comes into
this picture...?

Oh, that's the "and call a phone number to send the card info" stuff, is
it?  So how would that work on the mgetty side - can you configure a
certain user ID on the terminal (for login and password), or would you
need something like FIDO or AutoPPP support, triggering on certain byte
sequences?

gert
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