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[David C. Albrecht]

> 
> One way to fix the problem would be to hack the getty source (outta
> luck about this idea on the 3b1!) so that getty keeps its mouth
> shut until it gets a character from the originate side that is not
> part of the MNP handshake sequence.
Why out of luck?  I got my hands on a PD getty login driver and replaced
the default one on the tty000 line.  The one I put in doesn't echo either
the login or the password characters and takes pains to recognise if its
talking to another login request.  This way I was able to hook two unix
pc's by their serial ports and both in HOST_ONLY mode and yet able to
use the phone manager to log on from one machine to the other and/or transfer
info via uucp.  If echoing the input characters is the problem with the
MNP line I would expect that it might world with the phone line as well.

David Albrecht