ppp(ADMN)                       19 June 1992                       ppp(ADMN)


 Name

    ppp - login shell for the Point-to-Point Protocol

 Syntax

    /usr/lib/ppp/ppp

 Description

    /usr/lib/ppp/ppp is executed by login(TC) upon receipt of an incoming PPP
    connection request.

    ppp passes the name of its controlling tty to pppd through shared memory,
    then waits for the PPP datagram traffic on this link to stop, either
    through a timeout or an active close of the link.  When the tty is
    released, pppd will kill the ppp process and break the IP connection to
    the remote host.

 See also

    login(TC), pppd(ADMN), getty(ADMN), ppp(ADMP)