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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:37:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Austin, Michael H POJ" <Michael.H.Austin@poj.usace.army.mil>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as RAS server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808181436360.19286-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8C52C20400E6D111992500A024B4276008D226@pojmail02.poj.usace.ar my.mil>

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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.

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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