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Re: [PLUG] dialin server for linux?
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Darxus wrote:
> That's about what I was thinking, but:
>
> 1) I think pretty much any version of getty (plain getty, mingetty,
> agetty), although I'm not familiar w/ them all, I think they should all
> have a -l option to let you change the login program.
Yeah, the others should be able to do it as well, as long as they have the
-l (or similar) option. The -n option would be good as well. The agetty
manpage says
"agetty has several non-standard features that are useful
for hard-wired and for dial-in lines"
so I went for that.
> The reason I tried it with a script is, depending on the quoting I used,
> it either treated "telnet monet.op.net" as the name of a single program to
> execute (as apposed to "telnet" being the program, and "monet.op.net"
> being an argument), or it treated "telnet" as the login program
> (correctly), but treated "monet.op.net" as another argument to getty,
> instead of an argument to telnet. I'm sure this is why lord_dark was
> talking about using a script, but I still feel like there's gotta be a way
> to skip that step. I'm going to the bathroom, then I'll try some more :)
>
Yep, this is why I ended up using a script.. I've tried to get it to work
otherwise but havn't got it working yet :)
--Barry
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