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
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
-Original Message-From:
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Debian ISP
debian-isp@lists.debian.orgDate:
Friday, August 21, 1998 6:39 PMSubject: PPP and wtmp not working
together
Hello:
I read today that in 2.0, a ppp account is not
getting logged
into the wtmp file. I decided
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