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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Re: username length question?
To: steve@case.cioe.com (Steve Ames)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:46:03 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199506012205.RAA00334@case.cioe.com> from "Steve Ames" at Jun 1, 95 05:05:30 pm
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> 
> 
> I've got tacacs running on a freebsd (current 05/31) system. Problem I'm
> running into now: On some dial in connections that establish PPP
> there is a password on a specific IP address.
> 
> When I ran tacacs on my sunos machine this was no biggie... just create
> a "user" with a name such as 127.0.0.1, give it a password and your done.
> 
> Under FreeBSD this stopped working as most IP addresses are longer than
> 8 characters... sigh.
> 
> What changes do I need to make to make it go?
> 
> 					-Steve
> 
> 
I think that you can require them to log in with a hostname rather than
a IP address and then use the hostname as the user.  I think that is what
they do here.

Boyd

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 Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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