On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, 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.
Guru, not. User of mgetty/PPP, yes. > > Q07:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -s 115200 -m '"" ATZ OK"' ttyQ1a7 As long as 'ps' shows the mgetty process running on ttyQ1a7, this will work. The values on this line override the settings in /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config. > > I also asked Mark to dial in with HyperTerminal to confirm that the login ... > # > * - - /bin/login @ Yes, this is the /etc/mgetty/login.config that resulted in the prompt. "Mark" (if he had permissions) would need to fire up PPP from the command line at this stage. Since, by default, /etc/ppp is not readable by others, Mark needs to be assigned special priviliges to do so. The "routine way" is to let mgetty hand over the authentication procedure to PPP. The user does not actually login, which the following log record indicates: > 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/' It is produced as a result of the /etc/mgetty/login.config (as distributed): /AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login debug Everything is working OK so far. The log record is also you indicator that mgetty has finished doing it's thing and has handed off the connection to PPP for authentication. Time to look at the PPP config/logs. 1. /etc/ppp/options.ttyQ1a7 Assuming you are dynamically assigning IP addresses, you would want <server.IP.address>:<assigned.IP.address> 2. /etc/ppp/pap-secrets As distributed ... # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd * * "" * 3. /etc/ppp/options which has your PPP default options. On distribution there are no DNS servers specified for obvious reasons. # Specify which DNS Servers the incoming Win95 or WinNT Connection should use # Two Servers can be remotely configured ms-dns <useable.dns.server> ms-dns <useable.dns.server> If those settings are complete and correct, you should see the result of the attempted login via PPP in /var/log/auth.log If /etc/syslog.conf is configured with the line local2.* -/var/log/ppp.log you have a complete session log in /var/log/ppp.log Add the keyword directive (on a line by itself) debug to /etc/ppp/options.ttyQ1a7 for a detailed report of what PPP is really doing during the authentication/network protocol negotiation. Note: I change that 'a_ppp' above to a '-' and fight with PAM to have mgetty log the PPP connections to the utmp/wtmp files. This enables commands like 'who' and 'last' to show results on the dialup servers. It looks like the latest version of PPP in the potato distribution has stopped the fight between mgetty and PAM (not well tested by myself yet). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Supercity Internet Services http://www.supercity.ns.ca
