Caller-ID

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 26 Oct 1995 08:50:41 +0100

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Hi,

Cliff Addy wrote:
> I'd like to use caller-id to control access to my system.  I see that mgetty
> can do this in a way, but what I really need is to be able to make the number
> available to a program running after login.  I want to record which number a 
> call is coming from after allowing the call from any number.  Is there any way
> I can make the number available, perhaps as an environment variable?

Not easily. You could grab it out of the mgetty logfile, or the syslog /
LOG_AUTH logfile. It's in the very last line, "caller=...".

gert

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