Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:52:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAP logins via /etc/passwd under 2.2.5-REL .. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112224909.22079e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801101246.UAA24156@mail.creative.net.au>
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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm having some fun with pppd and PAP. > Under linux, if you put 'login' on the pppd line, it would PAP authenticate > via /etc/passwd entries, which is nice and great. It doesn't need/check > /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. > > Under FreeBSD 2.2.5-REL's pppd however (and the ones I've compiled) it > NEEDS /etc/ppp/pap-secrets there. And it won't authenticate from /etc/passwd . > However a -current pppd (2.2.0b3) from a few months ago seems to exhibit > the linux behaviour, which is what I'm after. But its lovely 16-char usernames > doesn't agree with 2.2.5-REL it seems :) Eh? It shoudn't care. You could probably hack it quickly to use 8 char usernames instead (but I don't see why it shouldn't work with the existing 8 char universe -- it might munge utmp/wtmp but if you don't use w/who/last/friends then you should be OK). :-) Did you try usermode ppp? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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