Re: flexfax: modem: Texas Instruments-Chipset

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> Personally I have no mgetty experience. I made ppp work using plain vanilla 
> getty, special ppp user, and the following script in its ~/.bash_profile: 
> exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach                             

It is safer to put this in a shell script and use #! to make it 
executable to an exec system call.  There is a small window in which
your method would allow people to gain control of the account used to
run pppd.