i am using shadow password...my ppp in /etc/passwd is like this
ppp:x:1002:100:ppp,ppp,ppp,ppp:/home/ppp:/usr/sbin/pppd
and working nicely.
istaz
>I m trying setting up my ppp server.
>My PPP server setup instructions ask me to create an accont called ppp,
>so normally I have in /etc/passwd something like:
>ppp:C9J79S0B3K/j6:501:501::/home/ppp:/bin/bash
>But my ppp server setup instructions recommend to create a ppp login
>script (the path for it would be /etc/ppp/ppplogin ) and that I should
>add a line referring to it ..to the path of ppp in /etc/passwd. That
>means something like:
>ppp:C9J79S0B3K/j6:501:501::/home/ppp:/etc/ppp/ppplogin:/bin/bash
>
>The problem is that, as soon as I do any modification to the ppp line in
>/etc/passwd, I cannot log in anymore with the user ppp. At the login
>prompt, I enter ppp, then the passwd, but it will get me back to the
>original login prompt as if it refuses the user ppp
>anymore..
>How to go through that..I guess I really need to find a way for adding
>the path for the ppp login script in /etc/passwd..but how..
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Marc Jacobson
>
>
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