On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:13:43PM -0500, Chuck Peters wrote: > > I sent the following to Equinox tech support, but I was hoping a kind > Debian guru can tell me what the problem is.
Here's my attempt at being a Debian guru (actually, pppd guru, Debian has nothing to do with the problem you're having): > Part of /etc/mgetty/login.config > > # This is the "standard" behaviour - *dont* set a userid or utmp > # entry here, otherwise /bin/login will fail! > # This entry isn't really necessary: if it's missing, the built-in > # default will do exactly this. > # > * - - /bin/login @ You probably have line staring with ``/AutoPPP/'', right? Please make sure it starts pppd with the options ``login'' and ``+pap''. My line here is /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login An alternative is to have each username/password in the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file (which I find rather annoying). pap-secrets has the following format: user your_server password ip_address [...] > The following are some mgetty enties of failed logins, and successful > logins using the manual bring up the termal window. > > ... > 03/04 15:46:53 1a7 send: > 03/04 15:46:53 1a7 waiting for ``_'' ** found ** > 03/04 15:46:55 ##### data dev=ttyQ1a7, pid=12205, caller='none', > conn='115200', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', user='/AutoPPP/' The line above suggests you have the AutoPPP line in login.config (maybe the default one?) > Thanks, > Chuck Hope this helps, --------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei D. Caraman phone: +40 (1) 2050 637 Sr Network Engineer fax: +40 (1) 2050 655 Mediasat SA
