Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[wilson@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Wilson)]

Howdy,

I asked the other day what the best way to set up a dialup server  was (the goal being to get a remote shell).

The uanimous answer was to use mgetty.

I now have mgetty set up and working just fine, with one problem: I don't know how to use it as a shell.

I know it works because I set up wvdial on our Red Hat box with my username and password and it dialed up and connected just fine. However, it tries to start ppp (which isn't really what I need, I don't think) and then after a bit the pppd dies because (of course) no connection is made. So basically, I can connect (thus I know mgetty is working) but I can't figure out how to get a shell out of the deal.

Can anyone explain how to get a shell prompt?
Am I even supposed to be using wvdial or should I be using some shell script?
If a shell script could I see an example?

TIA,

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Jonathan Wilson
System Administrator

Cedar Creek Software
http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

Central Texas IT
http://www.centraltexasit.com