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 tt
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
2 matches
Mail list logo