pap-secrets

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:00:29PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Harold Hallikainen <harold at hallikainen.com> wrote:
> >         I'll continue to search the web, but can anyone give guidance
> >         on
> >         pap-secrets? Ideally, I'd like pppd to authenticate
> >         through /etc/passwd .
> >         
> >         My mgetty+sendfax login.config has this line:
> >         /AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap -pap login debug
> >         
> >         
> >         Here's stuff from /var/log/messages
> >         
> >         Dec 17 20:23:44 sujan pppd[3194]: pppd 2.4.2 started by a_ppp,
> >         uid 0 Dec
> >         17 20:23:44 sujan pppd[3194]: Using interface ppp0
> >         Dec 17 20:23:44 sujan pppd[3194]: Connect: ppp0
> >         <--> /dev/ttyS0
> >         Dec 17 20:23:48 sujan pppd[3194]: PAP peer authentication
> >         failed for louise
> >         Dec 17 20:23:49 sujan pppd[3194]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> >         Dec 17 20:23:49 sujan pppd[3194]: Modem hangup
> >         Dec 17 20:23:! 49 sujan pppd[3194]: Connection terminated.
> >         Dec 17 20:23:49 sujan pppd[3194]: Exit.
> >         
> >         Below is pap-secrets. With my reading so far, I don't really
> >         know what to
> >         put in there. I'll read some more, but any guidance would be
> >         appreciated!
> >         I'm trying to set this up so I can log in to the server and
> >         then access it
> >         and the internet (the server is on a DSL).
> >         
> >         # Secrets for authentication using PAP
> >         # client server secret IP addresses
> >         louise
> >         harold
> >         
> >         
> >         THANKS!
> >         
> >         Harold
> >         
> 
> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 05:52 -0800, StephenW wrote:
> > Try this:
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/x1034.html
> > 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the comment! The cited page seems to be about dialing into an ISP while 
> I'm trying to receive calls. It also seems strange to me that the password is kept 
> in plain text. I read somewhere that there is a way to get it to use the shadow password file. 
> 
> What I'd like is for any user who has a shell account to be able to dial
> in and set up a PPP connection using the same username and password they
> do for shell access. 
> 
> Thanks for the comments!
> 
> Harold

This may be what you want.

http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html

Failing that, you might want to sign on to the redhat-ppp list:

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-ppp-list

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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