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From: js@sidney.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Modem dial-up problems
Keywords: modem getty etc
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Date: 18 Mar 91 17:33:06 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.204058.14941@wam.umd.edu>, mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes:
>Your modem is echoing back everything the computer sends it.
>So, when you're computer says go, the modem says "OK". The 
>computer thinks someone is trying to log in. So it says,
>"Log In" and your modem says, "ERROR" and your computer says
>"Password:" and your modem says, "ERROR" and so on and so on...

Sounds like a klugey way to deal with this would be to create a user
ERROR, whose password is ERROR, and whose shell is something like
/bin/true.  What's the right way?

---j. (js@princeton.edu)