Re: Shell accounts (fwd)
Joe Hartley (jh@metheny.brainiac.com)
Tue, 4 Jun 96 12:12:10 EDT
> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Joe Hartley wrote:
>
> > Maybe this seems obvious, but we'd been busting our chops to try and
> > provide shell and PPP access at login time, which we'd done by having
> > those customers with that access running PPP from the Sun, not the PM,
> > and having a menu that required entering a 1 for PPP and 2 for shell
> > access. (We wanted to avoid the Pname/Sname situation). Now we just have
> > to do that for people who might want shell access at dialup time.
>
> Did you have success providing the shell/PPP access at login time?
Yes, it worked, though the shell/PPP users needed a different script for
their PPP login, and it put the load on the Sun rather than the PM. It
was a pain to support, especially if the TCP stack didn't support anything
besides a user/password exchange.
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