Re: Fw: PPP and wtmp not working together

1998-09-16 Thread Gavan Murphy
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

Re: Fw: PPP and wtmp not working together

1998-08-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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

Fw: PPP and wtmp not working together

1998-08-21 Thread Peter Iannarelli
-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