A PPP account is associated with a login script. This scripts is used to control the various options of the /usr/sbin/pppd utility. A different login script is generally needed for every type of PPP account (dedicated, fixed IP, ...). Further some configuration are needed in scripts like /etc/ppp/ip-up. The pppdialin module provides a general solution to ease all that.
/etc/pppdialin.conf
./usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/pppparms
is used
to extract the parameters for a specific account and output
them in a useful way for a shell script./usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/ppplogin
take advantage of
the pppparms utility.