On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Scott Dudley wrote:
>
> >
> > I've got mgetty/pppd running on a Linux PC. I want to create an account on
> > the box but for ppp authentication only, no shell. What's the best way to
> > do so? In the past, I've simply specified /dev/null as shell for lack of
>
> You can use /usr/sbin/pppd (or a script that runs it) as the shell.
> Then (since you are doing ppp authentication) the login doesn't need
> a password in /etc/passwd.
I should have said read the man page, which gives a better and
fuller explanation, e.g. regarding .ppprc.
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