not really. The best way is to put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ which does
something like:
#! /bin/sh
echo ${PEERNAME} > /tmp/${IFNAME}
This creates a file called, say /tmp/ppp20 containing just the name of the
user. You can at any time use this in a script then with `cat /tmp/ppp20`.
HTH
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:53:53PM -0400, Jerry G wrote:
> Is there any way to find out which dialin user is associated with which
> ppp<n> interface? Let's say that I have a Redhat 6.0 dialin server using
> mgetty 1.1.21 which is compiled to support Auto_PPP. Also installed is a
> current release of pppd. Mgetty uses /etc/ppp/options.server for all
> dial-ins, and /etc/ppp/options.ttyD<n> for the nth dial-in line, where I
> assign an IP address for ppp<n>.
>
> /etc/ppp/options.server: (only pertinent lines included here)
> proxyarp
>
> /etc/ppp/options.ttyD0:
> 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.101
>
> When I use the command "ifconfig" I can see that many ppp interfaces are
> active and which tty device it is attached to. However, when I do a "who"
> command, none of the dial-in users show up. The messages in /var/log simply
> show the login user as Auto_PPP. Is there some other way to know which user
> is attached to the system when connected via Auto_PPP?
>
> Thanks! Jerry G.
>
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