How to create a dialup password (was Re: dialup password)

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <24 at booboo.UUCP> spear at booboo.UUCP (Steve Spearman) writes:
|>Would anyone who is using the 'dialup password' feature please send
|>me a copy of their /etc/d_passwd file or explain the format more
|>exactly?  I'm having trouble getting the password to not be prompted 
|>for on the 'uucp' logins.
|>

Well there are two files you need to know about... /etc/dialups, which
contains the devices that are considered "dialups".  (BE CAREFUL, and
don't put /dev/window or /dev/w[1-XX] in that file, cause it can very
easily lock you out of your machine!!).  The file /etc/dialups contains
/dev names terminated by newlines.  

eg.:
/dev/ph1
/dev/ph0

The file /etc/d_passwd is in the format:

Users_default_shell:Encrypted_Password::

eg.:
/bin/sh:Encrypted_Passwd::
/bin/ksh:Another_Passwd::

This allows you to have no "Dialup Password" prompted for uucp jobs.  
Obviously this can be done with the following line ...

/usr/lib/uucp/uucico:Encrypt_Passwd::

The easiest way to create the encrypted passwords for the /etc/d_passwd file 
is doing the following:

Edit /etc/passwd and place the lines in the files (ie. the lines starting
/bin/ksh, /bin/sh, etc.)  And then type:

# passwd /bin/sh
New Password: 
...

Edit out the lines, carefully preserving the password and copy them to
/etc/d_passwd.  Now you have a Dialup Password.  I would test this
on a serial port like /dev/tty000 .. if you have a terminal.  

						-Lenny

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