Changing comm parameters in mgetty

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>>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

    Gert> Hi, On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:04:26PM -0500, Robert
    Gert> 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.

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

Mgetty answers the call.  The card terminal calls a machine running
mgetty. 

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

If the phone line was dedicated to card terminals, then you could just 
use a funny login program.

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