linux accepting PAP dail up connections

You need to alter your /etc/inittab. Normally, you create a user account, with the appropriate pppd command as a shell, and then alter /etc/inittab to run a getty process on ttyS1 (or whatever serial line your modem is connected to). Then, when someone dials in, they get a login, and after succesful login, pppd start up.

In your case, you don't want to use a getty first, so you probably want to alter /etc/inittab so that a pppd process is attached to ttyS1 (or whatever tty is relevant to you). You should possibly add pppd to /etc/shells, though this shouldn't be important. So, you then need to sort out your pap-secrets file, and start pppd with the +pap option to enable pap authentication.


Having done all this, if you dial into your box with a serial comms program, from another machine, you should see ascii garbage coming down the link, which should be the PPP packets.

That's it, as far as I understand, I hope this sorts it for you.

thanks for your response. i was kind of hoping to get an answer like enter "xxxx" in the inittab file, edit the user profile with "xxx", that kind of stuff. if you could be more specific as to what should be entered in these files and the like, it would be appreciated. also, what are the specifics on the PAP secrets file. im not familar with the parms of it. the serial comms package for dial in would be win95 dial up networking. i would also need to assign an IP address to that caller and the dns used on our end, which is passes as part of PAP

thanks again



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thanks cedric, im going to try this in a day or so. can i contact you by email in the event i have difficulty. it would be much appreciated. i also am not real familiar with tha gettys, or pap secrets. so it would be great help if i can just email you when im trying to get this going.

thanks again

ray@havenet.com