Re: (PM) PM3 config for Win3.1/Scripts AND PAP????

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:00:19 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Phil Hunt wrote:

> Hi
>
> After looking through the manuals for my shiny new PM3, I am confused about
> how to set a portmaster to acceptr both PAP AND Win 3.1 type dialups.
>
> PAP does not ask a username/password prompt, but gets them through PAP and
> win3.1 requires username:/password: prompts.

set the port for network/login

>
> It looks to me that you can't set a port to do both, is that true? Mgetty
> under Unix looks for PAP and if it doesn't see it, gives a username prompt.
> Is that how pm stuff works?

Nope, not true, pap is attempted first, then if it receives no pap reply,
it spits out a "login:"

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