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From: Leonard Chua <lenc@earth.infinetconsulting.com>
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Subject: Re: pppd and the login option 
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> well... could you inform us to what version of FreeBSD your running? (and
> ident of /usr/sbin/pppd would be nice too...) I'm running pppd with the
> login option (plus a few local hacks) and it's running fine...  I never
> have seen pppd seg fault there.... of course that's because I haven't seen
> it seg fault :)...

It's kernel pppd 2.1 pl2 and FreeBSD 2.1.0 using gcc 2.6.3

> plus it's also very hard for your users to change there password :)
> ttyl..
It's still in consideration, but I wouldn't want to give them a login shell.
I would prefer to use a secured web page for them to change their passwords.

Len.