From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 16:54:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01668 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:54:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pojmail01.poj.usace.army.mil (pojmail01.poj.usace.army.mil [155.81.101.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01654 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.H.Austin@poj.usace.army.mil) Received: by pojmail01.poj.usace.army.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:53:50 +0900 Message-ID: <8C52C20400E6D111992500A024B4276008D227@pojmail02.poj.usace.army.mil> From: "Austin, Michael H POJ" To: "'Doug White'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: FreeBSD as RAS server Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:53:48 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Doug White [mailto:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 6:37 AM To: Austin, Michael H POJ Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: FreeBSD as RAS server On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Austin, Michael H POJ wrote: > Hope someone can help me out here. > We have an NT RAS server for folks to dial in to to access a Windows network > running TCP/IP. Reliability of the system is questionable. Ideally, I'd like a > FreeBSD machine to take over RAS duties YET be transparent to the remote users. > This would mean using the existing NT authentication (SAMBA?) and no changes to > the client machines (no scripting to handle "Login" prompts, etc). > Can this be done with FreeBSD? Sure. There's a gettytab capability 'pp' that will start the indicated program if getty receives PPP frames. Sounds good. Would you happen to know if NT authentication can be used? Thanks for the quick reply Michael Austin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message