Re: [aclug-L] roadrunner login

[Rod Bowers <bowers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure this will help, but I saw this at freshmeat this morning.

Rod


rrlogind-sv
  SV - January 10th 1999, 14:39 EST

  rrlogind-sv is a Time Warner RoadRunner cable modem login
  client for Linux. It's a rewritten version of Joshua Jackson's
  rrlogind-1.2.

            Download:
                          http://www.phystech.com/download/
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Tom Hull wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just moved back to Wichita, after slumming in the NYC/Boston environs
> for >20 years. I've done Unix programming for 18 years, going back to V7.
> Most of those years I worked on SGI/IRIX, but I've been dabbling with Linux
> for four years or so. I've written some free software (Ftwalk), and some
> articles. I'm looking forward to participating in ACLUG.
>
> But right now I have a pressing problem. I'm trying to get the cable modem
> (Roadrunner) all set up. I'm running Red Hat 6 (2.2.5). I have eth1 set up,
> DHCP working, and have pretty good Internet access (telnet, ftp, http, etc.).
> What I don't have working is login to Roadrunner's member services, which
> should allow me to set up additional email accounts, a web page, etc.
>
> I have the account name and password. This does work for accessing mail
> through pop-server@xxxxxxxxxxx, so I can be accessed at ltillem@xxxxxxxxxxx.
> I have a software package called rrlogind-2.32, which builds and runs. The
> first thing one does with rrlogind-2.32 is to run a program called rrconf,
> which asks for account name, password, and server name. I don't have the
> server name (I've guessed ams-server, but get a "connection refused" from
> there). The other little clue is that rrlogind is listening to port 7770,
> which as an arbitrary number could well be wrong (i.e., it works in south
> Maine, but not here).
>
> Has anyone out there already licked this problem? (The login server name
> and the port number should be constant across all Kansas users.)
>
> If not, I'll try working myself through Roadrunner's labrynthine phone
> system. Thanks.
>
> --
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