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From: "Jon Theil Nielsen" <jontheil@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Samba PDC with VPN access
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2008/3/21, Sin <sinister@gmail.com>:
>
> I just happen to be looking into vpn stuff with FreeBSD,   I was looking
> at
> the man page for ppp, there is a section that states passwd(5) can be used
> instead of a secret file.  Not sure if this entirely relates to your
> setup,
> but I will be trying this out
>
> /*
> If MyAuthPasswd is a ``*'', the password is looked up in the passwd(5)
>      database.
> */


BTW, I think this is a method to authenticate yourself when establishing a
connection from your own machine to another one. One something I can use to
authenticate outside users to my (VPN) server.

Regards,
Jon