Starting a VPN connection

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Paul,

Well am not an expert in VPN connections so this might be something stupid
but anyway here it goes .


Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/20/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>>I do not know where from you can get the keys, but it is safe to
>>>>>install them without keys.
>>>>
>>>>I installed without the keys. No biggie.
>>>>
>>>>I can't figure out how to get it to authorize with MS-CHAP. I have
>>>>checked "Require Microsoft point-to-point Encryption" under the
>>>>encryption menu. This is the output:
>>>>
>>>>Using interface ppp1pptpconfig: monitoring interface ppp1
>>>>Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/2
>>>>Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access
>>>>Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access

First of all here we have a permissions problem .  I guess a login as root
and then "chmod 700 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets" could resolve the problem .

>>>>PAP authentication succeeded

Well the above line says PAP ( Password Authentication Protocol ) succeded

How do we know that the VPN Server actually offers CHAP Authentication
and not just PAP Authentication since the two of them are entirely 
different
things.


>>>>I'm sorry to ask for the hand-holding. There just doesn't seem to be
>>>>any information on this available. When I get this working, I'll piece
>>>>together a howto on the subject. In the meantime, how do I get it to


>>>>authenticate with MS-CRAP?

I have no knowledge of MS-CRAP ????? What's it's meaning ???
Does it  actually mean MS- CHAP as of ( MS - Chalenge Host Authentication
Protocol )

Btw if there is a CHAP Authentication to be performed is there
any  /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file available ???


Kind Regards,
    Kostas