PPP server set up: makin pppd the user's shell

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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 10:33:23PM +0200, Marc Corel wrote:
> I want a user, we'll call him ppp to log into my machine. But in order
> not to use auto-ppp and depend on pap-secrets, I wanted to make pppd the
> user's shell: 
> ...
> ..... But since I did that modification, when I  log  with user ppp,
> (I enter ppp at login prompt, then my password..then) I get the ppp
> garbage
> y}#A!}!}&E0....on my screen..and in a matter of seconds, it gets me back
> 
> to the login prompt!!!

And you use use pppd for dialing into your machine? pppd should recognize
the data you call garbage.
I think you need a chat-file like this one
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' "" ATZ OK ATDmynumber ogin: ppp assword: mypass
and you call pppd connect chat-file

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Kurt Garloff, Dortmund 
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff