On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Sarel J. Botha wrote:
|Would it be okay for pppd to have such a feature? Some people would
|probably say this isn't the job of pppd.
I personally doubt that it will be a feature anytime soon. The mgetty code
seems to cover this aspect very well.
|But, if you're running an ISP-type system where all users are always PPP
|clients you can then use pppd's plugin option and have both kinds of users
If you're running an ISP then you should consider providing the users with
scripts that do what the ISP needs done at connection time to start PPP.
|authenticated via pap_auth_hook(). Otherwise you need to code your own
|/bin/login replacement that always fires off pppd.
I'm really not a programmer and won't try to comment on the utility of
plugins.
Since the gettys usually provide a configuration option to replace
/bin/login with some other program; it could be a script that starts pppd.
|Will a patch for this be integrated into future releases of pppd?
That's up to Paul.
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