You were probably looking for RADIUS or something. mgetty is for tty handling.
I use cistron based radius daemon. Sorry about the confusion, Tim. > The package 'mgetty' does the trick nicely. > > It has a debian package but you can read up on it at: > http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/ > > Tim. > > > How do you configure Debian to authenticate an > > incoming call. or where to find info on doing this. > > >