Mike, I use that method, and after a recompile of pppd, "who" or "w" works just
fine. I've read about a lot of utmp problems with pppd, and the problems seem
to be distro specific, but in all cases that I have encountered recompiling
fixes it. In case you decide to try it, when you uncompress the ppp source
file, cd into the new dir, run configure, then go into the "pppd" subdir, and
edit the Makefile according to your needs. There are comments telling you what
to do, you need only to pay attention to the lines about "CHAP" , "PAM" and
"shadow passwords".....on my system, I have commented them all out, your mileage
may vary. One more thing, I am not sure what the trouble is, but the latest
version of pppd that works for me is ppp-2.3-4, so you may want to try that
first.
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Geof Goodrum wrote:
>
> > Is there any particular reason you don't want to use mgetty with AutoPPP
> > and per user entries in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets? Then you don't need to mess
> > with /etc/passwd at all, and you have more access control.
>
> When using this method, will a "who" or "w" should the login name of the
> user connected? It was my experience in the past that it did not (which
> is one feature important to my particular application).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike.
>
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