On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Nick Phillips wrote:
...
> Usually the names given to ppp for authentication purposes are host
> names. These names will often not be in the same namespace as the user
> names on the system, hence they might overlap; whilst most of the ppp
> client names might be different to all the user names on the system,
> some might not. Then you would find it difficult to do accounting based
> on the name in utmp, if you were putting the names used by ppp for
> authentication in there.
I just skimmed this thread. This might not be acceptable to you, but you
can use AutoPPP with the 'pap' and -> 'login' <- options to put the actual
user account names in the log. From 'last' on my dial-in system:
ggoodrum ttyR1 Wed Mar 3 22:52 - 23:34 (00:41)
a_ppp ttyR1 115200 Wed Mar 3 22:52 - 22:52 (00:00)
ggoodrum ttyR1 Wed Mar 3 20:35 - 21:44 (01:08)
a_ppp ttyR1 115200 Wed Mar 3 20:35 - 20:35 (00:00)
Of course, this requires a user account for each PPP user, but it sounds
as if this is the case here, anyway. If you don't want to allow users to
shell in, you should be able to disable their shell login without
impacting PPP access.
Geof
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