How to Log Account Usage?

[Paul Bryan]

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Sounds like good advice. And I went and looked up mgetty logging and 
everything!

Anyway, if you still want to use mgetty, log files of what it gets up to are 
written to /var/log/mgetty.ttyxx (where xx is your device). Thats the default 
location anyways.

have a look at www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/

Cheers,
Paul.


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:35, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> brt_informatics at wlink.com.np (brt_informatics at wlink.com.np) wrote:
> >  Now the next challenge for me is to log user account usage? Can
>
> Unless you have 1 or 2 modems hanging off the built-in serial ports of a
> PC, I strongly recommend using RADIUS.  Hell, I'd even use it then ;-)
>
> Running a RADIUS server gives a few benefits:
>
>  * It handles dishing out IP settings, user authentication, and
>    accounting.  You only need learn one system! :-)
>  * The architecture supports failover/backup servers, so should
>    the primary radius server go down, you don't lose out.
>  * Supported by the major access servers (Lucent Portmaster, Ascend MAX,
>    Cisco AS5x00 (though I think you need a certain IOS version for the
>    earlier 5200/5300 models)) and a Unix server via "portslave".
>  * Scales very well.  Should you need to expand dialup services, just
>    plug in more dialup systems and point them at your existing server.
>  * Most will store stats in a database, letting you easily grab all
>    sorts of useful information.
>
> Some radius servers you might care to check out are cistron, xtradius,
> freeradius and yardradius.  All the above are apt-gettable in Debian but
> unfortunately you're running Redhat, so have fun finding them, solving
> dependency issues, etc. :P

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