The short answer is yes. The long answer is that it depends on what you mean.
To allow dial in to a shell (which seems to be what you want) you just need
to set a *getty* process (depending on your system the actual app may be
mgetty, agetty, getty_ps, or one of a couple of others) to watch the modem
line. Assuming you know the /dev/ttyS* entry for your modem connection, look
in /etc/inittab and see if you already have lines present, but commented
out, for running some getty process on the device -- you're looking for a
line that says something like (this sample is from my Slackware 3.5 system):
#d1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -mt60 38400 ttyS0 vt100
Try just uncommenting that line and SIGHUP'ing init.
Your modem also needs to be set to answer the phone. Exactly how you do this
depends on your modem, but your modem docs should tell you.
Once you do this, anyone with a valid account on the syste should be able to
dial in and log in. Basically what happens is that *getty* watches the
modem's serial port for a connection, then hands over control to the same
login program that handles console and telnet logins.
If you want to enable ppp dial ins, you can do that too, but the procedure
is a bit more complicated, too much so for me to go into at this point..
At 10:37 AM 5/6/99 -0300, Ted Gervais wrote:
>Is there something available for linux that one can set up that will allow
>someone to dial into ones system. A telephone call to your linux system.
>I guess it is a terminal program of some sort with host features. There
>would be a login prompt, password etc..
>Must be something out there? I want to be able to dial into my system to
>read my mail, and also allow others (of my choice) to dial in to read
>their mail..
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