From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:51:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01070 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06736 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA22657; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:52:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:52:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Adrian Chadd cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAP logins via /etc/passwd under 2.2.5-REL .. In-Reply-To: <199801101246.UAA24156@mail.creative.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm having some fun with pppd and PAP. > Under linux, if you put 'login' on the pppd line, it would PAP authenticate > via /etc/passwd entries, which is nice and great. It doesn't need/check > /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. > > Under FreeBSD 2.2.5-REL's pppd however (and the ones I've compiled) it > NEEDS /etc/ppp/pap-secrets there. And it won't authenticate from /etc/passwd . > However a -current pppd (2.2.0b3) from a few months ago seems to exhibit > the linux behaviour, which is what I'm after. But its lovely 16-char usernames > doesn't agree with 2.2.5-REL it seems :) Eh? It shoudn't care. You could probably hack it quickly to use 8 char usernames instead (but I don't see why it shouldn't work with the existing 8 char universe -- it might munge utmp/wtmp but if you don't use w/who/last/friends then you should be OK). :-) Did you try usermode ppp? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major