Mgetty, RH Linux 5.1 and PAP authentication

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Some versions of ppp need one or more fields beyond the secret field in
the secrets file that specify the allowed IP addresses.  ppp-2.3.5 needs
this, ppp-2.2.0 doesn't.  Don't know about the in-betweens.

A single * as a fourth field will allow any IP address.  Check man pppd
to find out if this might be the problem.


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Paul Wickham (paul.wickham@gardline.co.uk.nospam) wrote:
>Hi!
>I've got Redhat Linux 5.1 and MGetty working fine with AutoPPP and no
>authentication, but when I turn on authentication in login.config with the
>line:

>/AutoPPP/ -     -       /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login kdebug 7 debug

>and try to log in with Win NT4 the system refuses to authenticate. I tried
>deleting /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, setting up pap-secrets as follows:
><username>    *     "<password>"
>I have also tried
>*    *     ""
>in pap-secrets
>And it still doesn;t work. I read in the man page that pppd  requires an
>entry in pap-secrets even if you wish to use the login option. But what do I
>enter, because as far I can gather, there should be a machine name and not a
>user name in pap-secrets?

>Ideally, I don't want to use /etc/ppp/pap-secrets at all, and just the
>/etc/passwd file.









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