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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:03:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Nat Low <natlow@empnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPPD dialup server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331020319.397f-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970323165650.6353B-100000@hydrogen.dynamik.com>

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On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Nat Low wrote:

> I've got a setup running with a few modems, mgetty, and pppd running.  I
> would like to be able to setup the capability to authenticate using pap or
> chap for dialin users.  Currently my users have to bring up a terminal
> screen after dialing and connecting to type in their userid and password,
> or setup a script to do this for them.  Windows95 doesn't seem to
> recognize that it is attempting a plain-text authentication, and never
> negotiates or even logs on unless the terminal screen is ran or a script
> does it for them.

Actually there is options to pop up the terminal window to do the login.

> Does pppd have to do this, if so, how do I setup pppd to work with the
> modem on incoming users.  I'm sorry if I missed something in one of the
> man pages, but I checked repetitively and came up with no answer for
> incoming pap and chap.

I thought newer revs of mgetty had auto-pap detection & login.

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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