On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Kevin Anderson wrote:
> I need to setup my server so I can connect to it through it's phone modem.
> Is there a howto anyone knows of? I'm not even sure what to look it up as.
This is fairly straightforward with the mgetty package, and
has not changed materially from RHL 7 days. At one time, I
had a step-by-step outline, as it was a bit tricky to get the
'auto-ppp' option working, so as to authenticate against the
/etc/passwd /etc/shadow, file values (using 'pam' as it
occurs to me).
/me goes and looks ... oh yeah ... back in RHL 7.2 they (RH)
broke ppp a bit against the MS DUN tool, but that is probably
long fixed by now.
http://www.owlriver.com/projects/ppp/
As I recall, /etc/mgetty/getty.conf and /etc/ppp/options, and
possibly the /etc/ppp/peers <?> files needed to be configured.
I don't find that I have an external writeup on the process.
I will check at the office tomorrow for one.
- Russ Herrold
