Dialin on Fedora Core 4?

I'm trying to get FC4 dial in working. It uses mgetty+sendfax and pppd.
The first problem I have is with authentication. I'd LIKE it to allow
any user that has shell access to be able to dial in. Various tutorials
tell how this can be done, but I have not gotten any to work. In each
case, I get user not in pap-secrets. I suspect I need a specified
command line for where mgetty calls pppd and probably something for the
pppd.config. Can anyone suggest configurations that work?

Second, is there a way to have pppd go out to my DHCP server and send
the assigned IP, DNS info, etc. to the dial in client? So far I've only
seen how pppd can assign a static address. I'd like dialin clients to
be able to get out to the internet. Do I need to set up IP Forwarding
for that, or is there something I can do in the pppd configuration that
just makes the dialin user look like another DHCP assigned computer on
the LAN?

THANKS!!!

Harold

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