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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:09:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sasha Egan <wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP:PAP:WIN95:FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416160732.7393J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416154114.10575A-300000@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>

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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Sasha Egan wrote:

> 
> > I have the hacked version of pppd installed in /usr/sbin
> > bash$ ls -al pppd
> > -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  77824 Apr 16 11:28 pppd
> 
> >Huh?  You shouldn't have to hack pppd.
>                                                                                
> This version does some things that the old pppd couldn't do...it operates
> with mods to update utmp when someone logs in using pap against the system
> pwd.db and to use ppp.disabled and ppp.shells which act like /etc/shells.
> utmp modes are in 2.2-RELEASE but this version fixes some bugs.
> That is quoted from the README attached with the pppkit pppd.

I thought that had been fixed recently in pppd, but perhaps I'm thinking
of usermode ppp.

Did you create the ppp.ports file?  That seems to the core of the whole
operation.  

> here is ppplogin.sh and fancyppplogin.sh they are identecie I think.

fancyppplogin lists out some mail bits for some reason.

> > bash$ cat /etc/ppp/options
> > dns1 192.168.1.1
> > proxyarp
> 
> >Hm, no pap, no address specification.
> 
> >Danger Will Robinson:  This setup allows *unauthenticated* access to your
> >machine.  You will want to add `+pap' to options to force PAP
> >authentication.                                                            
> 
> it is forced...if you look in the shell scripts that I sent you will see
> that it is included in the called command lines. The scripts do nothing
> but set certain variables for each of the options that pppd requires.

Yes, I saw.   Thanks for the scripts, it looks like they've been making
the rounds.

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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