"Sarel J. Botha" wrote:
My ISP gets around this somehow: they allow shell logins. Default is a ppp
session, but by prepending 't' to the username, I get a shell instead. I
am not sure what mechanism they use for differentian tho'.
>
>
> > reading any more code than it takes to make a reasonable guess. :)
>
> Yes, that's right. I was assuming the user's login shell is set to
> /usr/sbin/pppd, then that would happen.
>
> Would it be okay for pppd to have such a feature? Some people would
> probably say this isn't the job of pppd.
>
> 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
> authenticated via pap_auth_hook(). Otherwise you need to code your own
> /bin/login replacement that always fires off pppd.
>
> Will a patch for this be integrated into future releases of pppd?
>
> Thanks
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> 99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code,
> fix one bug, compile it again...
> 101 little bugs in the code....
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