Hi Folks, Peter and Jens have commented on this matter already, but I have a slight variation on the theme. I can get wtmp entries made when the user connects and initiates PPPD, but I fail to get a corresponding entry in wtmp when the session is complete. It is not until another user gets that ttyC* port that the wtmp entries actually reflect that the previous user is logged out.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before. A cure would be very nice. System - debian 2.0.30 kernel, libc5 - 5.4.33-3, libc6 - 2.0.4-1, ppp 2.2.0f-23, mgetty 1.1.7-4 Many thanks, Gavan Jens B. Jorgensen wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Well, actually it isn't pppd's job to make a utmp/wtmp entry. That job belongs to mgetty. The 'login' option just >tells pppd to authenticate users with passwords from /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow, as the case may be). There's >a chicken-and-egg problem here because though it's mgetty's job to make the entry, when dialin users >authenticate with PAP/CHAP by that time mgetty is no longer running. >I believe that using ppp-pam will alleviate this problem. The pam module used to authenticate should also take >care of logging the utmp/wtmp entries (though reading the documentation I don't see anything which more than >suggests this). Get the ppp-pam package, give it a try, and let me know if it does indeed make the proper >entries. >Peter Iannarelli wrote: -----Original Message----- From: Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian ISP <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> Date: Friday, August 21, 1998 6:39 PM Subject: PPP and wtmp not working togetherHello: I read today that in 2.0, a ppp account is not getting loggedinto the wtmp file. I decided to check this out and low andbehold I was unable to get a wtmp entry for a ppp account. I started to play around in the /etc/mgetty/login.config filewhich as installed reads /AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login I changed it to /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login and /AutoPPP/ - * /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login and /AutoPPP/ - @ /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login No login line showed up for a finger or who commandand there was no wtmp entry for the account. I then changed the line to /AutoPPP/ - userId /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login An and the entries I was expecting. Can someone tell me how to configure login.config or ppp tolog and display active ppp user ids. Peter -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------- Gavan Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Australian Corporate Information Solutions