On Thursday 10 February 2005 12:05, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > The TLDP how-to just covers thing I don't know about, I doesn't cover my > > specific senario. ( As I would understand it) > > please email the document author with your feedback. we need more > users to participate in improving the LDP documentation > > -- > Regards, > Rahul Sundaram Hi Raul, I am prepared to assist as requested as soon as I get this puppy bedded 100% Here is where I am at after following the instructions on the link provided earlier: I dialup and I get to logging on to network then the mgetty just dies and kicks me out of my ssh session. as you can see [root@chadlap chadley]# ssh preload root@preload's password: Last login: Thu Feb 10 18:28:03 2005 from chadlap [root@preload root]# /sbin/mgetty ttyS0 -D ttyS0 -s 115200 Connection to preload closed. [root@chadlap chadley]# How can I find out why it is dying on me and kicking me out of the ssh session? I presume it has to do with the authentication but I can't seem to get it to authenticate. I have allowed ppp0 on my firewall and I have also set a passwd for a user copied from the example also ppp please could some-one more knowledgeable help out here! -- -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers Proudly South African ISO9001:2000 Certified Production Line ======================================= LINUX - becuase I can do it my way. ========================================