> 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
no.. i've never run a ppp dialin server, but i'm pretty sure you don't
want to run 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..
that's probably because your ppp login script isn't in /etc/shells.
