Topic: Dialin Problems

[Robert Heaton]

Hi,
I'm using e-smith 4.1.2 & I have followed the contrib document on setting up e-smith as a dialin server. And the modem on the e-smith server answers with no problems.

But when I try and connect to the server over a phone line, all i get is "Verifying username & password..." and then the e-smith server just hangs up.

In /var/log/messages, all i get is;
e-smith login[4571]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR /AutoPPP/, $PP/, Authentication failure

e-smith pam_unix: bad username [4571] [ } } o\216~]


So i take it, that i need to give a user "authority" to login remotely, how do i do this??
I've tried logging in as "root" "admin" "rob"

Any ideas??
Cheers,

[Tim Haynes]

Your problem may be the same as I experienced.  Cant be sure as you don't show enough of your log file.  However if you received the message:

server mgetty[27313]: login: '/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config' must be root/0600:

Then follow the instructions I have cut and paste below from a previous posting:

i.e. at root prompt type

chmod 600 /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config

Hope this resolves the problem.

Tim.


Hi Michael,
This line contains the clue to the problem:

server mgetty[27313]: login: '/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config' must be root/0600: Invalid argument

login as root and type the following command
#chmod 600 /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config
and you should be sweet
If you check the permissions on that file it will be currently 644