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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:07:31 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
To:        Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some advice needed.
Message-ID:  <19970411140731.10858@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <334E2271.59E2B600@cablenet.net>; from Damian Hamill on Fri, Apr 11, 1997 at 12:37:22PM %2B0100
References:  <4193.860725344@time.cdrom.com> <334E2271.59E2B600@cablenet.net>

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Damian Hamill scribbled this message on Apr 11:
> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > > Certainly can.  Callers can either use a getty login or PPP PAP - getty
> > > detects PPP calls and starts pppd.  See
> > > ftp.hilink.com.au:/pub/FreeBSD/ts-kit215.tgz
> > 
> > Did we never integrate this functionality into the system by default?
> > It seems a logical thing to do.
> > 
> >                                         Jordan
> 
> I've been thinking about this recently (especially considering the pigs
> ear of getting win95 to connect with scripting) and I would like a getty
> that supports auto-ppp, however for my setup the pppd will also have to
> do radius authentication, instead of PAP or CHAP.
> 
> Any thoughts on that ?

well.. it shouldn't be that hard to add... I've done some hacking arround
pppd to support forcing a specific loging name for PAP auth...  you should
just be able tp replace the getpwnam calls and struct passwd with the
stuff from radius...

of course I haven't ever looked at radius...  so it might be more complex
than that...

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