Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 14:41:29 +0400 (DST) From: "Sergei S. Laskavy" <laskavy@cs.msu.su> To: nik@blueberry.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD to act as a PPP server. Message-ID: <199704281041.OAA14894@ns.cs.msu.su>
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Nik> login - Use the passwd file as the 'secrets' file for
Nik> PAP or CHAP authentication. This allows users to authenticate
Nik> themselves using their existing user IDs and passwords. If
Nik> you do not do this then you can create a file (called a
Nik> 'secrets' file) which contains equivalent information. Again,
Nik> 'man pppd' goes into more detail on this topic.
I have a question. Consider a FreeBSD host. Many users want to be able
to log into "terminal mode" and to use PPP. How can we do that?
The first solution was: to add "ppp" user with the "ppp" password.
But... anyone was able to use "ppp/ppp" pair as PAP auth :)
Now we use FreeBSD 2.1.5-R with getty from 2.2.1-R (to recognize
incoming PPP), but some clients (OS2) do not know how to run PPP
without sending login name and password.
So, the question is: how to configure the "flexible" PPP server?
Maybe, someone solved this?
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