Re: flexfax: faxgetty as a callback server.

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Lorenzo M. Catucci wrote:

> Now, mgetty have two nice features, which are autoppp, and callback.
> autoppp means I don't have to set up a ppp account, with a common
> password, but rather have mgetty recognize ppp traffic, start pppd with
> the login and pap options, and all is done with the standard username and
> password. Callback means... you know that. Now, I have managed to have

Hmmm. Under SunOS, I set up distinct PPP accounts for my users. This
permits me to log, via utmp, when they call in as themselves and when
they call in as PPP users.

There are a gazillion ways to do this, of course....

> mgetty called from faxgetty, but doing that I lost the callback option.
> What I think is needed is a small external program which asks faxgetty (or
> faxq, I still haven't understood which program does handle the calling)
> via the FIFO and asks it to call a telephone number, and then pass the
> serial line to another program, which, should be (I know, you are
> surprised) mgetty. Is it feasible? How many people could like such a
> feature?

What you want, I think, is to have a shell script as your dialup login
shell: this shell would then run off and start up the callback feature.

How do you want to set up what phone number to call back? Typed by user,
or what?

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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