the line must be
ppp:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx::/home/ppp:/etc/ppp/ppplogin
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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