pap-secrets

[Harold Hallikainen]

> 
> Harold Hallikainen <harold at hallikainen.com> wrote:
>         I'll continue to search the web, but can anyone give guidance
>         on
>         pap-secrets? Ideally, I'd like pppd to authenticate
>         through /etc/passwd .
>         
>         My mgetty+sendfax login.config has this line:
>         /AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap -pap login debug
>         
>         
>         Here's stuff from /var/log/messages
>         
>         Dec 17 20:23:44 sujan pppd[3194]: pppd 2.4.2 started by a_ppp,
>         uid 0 Dec
>         17 20:23:44 sujan pppd[3194]: Using interface ppp0
>         Dec 17 20:23:44 sujan pppd[3194]: Connect: ppp0
>         <--> /dev/ttyS0
>         Dec 17 20:23:48 sujan pppd[3194]: PAP peer authentication
>         failed for louise
>         Dec 17 20:23:49 sujan pppd[3194]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
>         Dec 17 20:23:49 sujan pppd[3194]: Modem hangup
>         Dec 17 20:23:! 49 sujan pppd[3194]: Connection terminated.
>         Dec 17 20:23:49 sujan pppd[3194]: Exit.
>         
>         Below is pap-secrets. With my reading so far, I don't really
>         know what to
>         put in there. I'll read some more, but any guidance would be
>         appreciated!
>         I'm trying to set this up so I can log in to the server and
>         then access it
>         and the internet (the server is on a DSL).
>         
>         # Secrets for authentication using PAP
>         # client server secret IP addresses
>         louise
>         harold
>         
>         
>         THANKS!
>         
>         Harold
>         

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 05:52 -0800, StephenW wrote:
> Try this:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/x1034.html
> 


Thanks for the comment! The cited page seems to be about dialing into an ISP while 
I'm trying to receive calls. It also seems strange to me that the password is kept 
in plain text. I read somewhere that there is a way to get it to use the shadow password file. 

What I'd like is for any user who has a shell account to be able to dial
in and set up a PPP connection using the same username and password they
do for shell access. 

Thanks for the comments!

Harold