On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > > > I am trying to use my redhat box as a dailin server by using multitech
> > > > cards. I am able to login as a user with password, if the user exists in
> > > > /etc/passwd.
> > > >
> > > > But when I try to find out who are logged in on my machine, by using the
> > > > command who or finger, I am not getting the required data.
> > > >
> > > > By "who" I am getting every dialup user is a_ppp and in "finger" I am not
> > > > getting the dialup user list.
> > > >
> > > > How can view the login "userids" (from the dialup, not as a_ppp) by using
> > > > who or finger.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Kiran
> > > >
> > > It sounds like you are using the auto-ppp login. Have you tried adding
> > > the login option to the ppp config file for the port? It should do the
> > > trick.
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. Actually for loggin on the server through dialup, I
> > am using the following line in a script.
> >
> > exec /usr/sbin/pppd silent auth -chap +pap login
> >
> > This will be called from the passwd (from the SHELL option)
> >
> > So where should I change... Any ideas..
> >
> Let me make sure I have this correct. The user loges in with user name,
> and password. Then ppp is started for them? This is the oppisite of
> what I thought you were doing. In this case, you do not want to use
> login, and you probably want noauth, and not auth -pap. The
> authentication is already done with the username/password, so the extra
> authentication is not needed.
Yes. I tried with noauth.. no use
> If I understand how the login option of ppp works, what is happening is
> that you are telling it to record the user who is logging in, but you
> are not giving it the correct user name because of the way you are
> calling pppd. The login option is for when you use someting like the
> autoppp option of mgetty, or other programs that make the connection,
> but do not authenticate the user. You start pppd without any
> user/password prompt, and the user name and password are exchanged as
> part of the ppp handshake.
>
> Try "exec /usr/sbin/pppd silent noauth", and see how that works.
In mgetty login.config I used the options like
/* @ @ /usr/sbin/pppd noauth
and also I tried without calling any sheel after authentication, i.e., i
kept /dev/null
In all the cases it is not displaying the userid ... any more ideas..
If u already did this type of work, in different model, i am ready to
check in that way also (without system authentication initailly also
like radius client,etc)
Thanks,
Kiran
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