[lug] Modem recommendations

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Thu Mar 24 18:13:45 MST 2005


Glad it is working for you! Definitely nice to have a backup way into the box when it falls off the Net. 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Belanger <mrb at ciclops.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:33:25 
To:"Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Subject: Re: [lug] Modem recommendations

D. Stimits wrote:
> Michael Belanger wrote:
> 
>> Nate Duehr wrote:
>>
>>> mgetty can do this and also watch for ppp connect requests on the 
>>> same modem if you want "real" network access.
>>> Setup is a bit of a bear, if you get stuck, holler.

Thanks!  Mgetty seems to work out-of-the-box in redhat 9 .. just had to 
alter a couple lines in mgetty.conf. login.conf seems to use /bin/login 
by default.

Now.. to secure it a little...

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Michael Belanger
CICLOPS, Space Science Institute
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