From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: carlsonj@workingcode.com Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:41:45 +0000 Subject: Re: ppp 2.4.3 cvs authentication issue Message-Id: <16769.4921.412984.865692@carlson.workingcode.com> List-Id: References: <20041028124517.7204.qmail@web25210.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041028124517.7204.qmail@web25210.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org a b writes: > Next step will be to use pam because I saw that there > is a ppp pam module coming with the ppp package. > > According to the man page I simply need to use the > "login" option and it will automatically look for the > local system auth ? As far as I know, PAM works only with PAP authentication. This is because all of the other authentication methods use cryptographic hashes instead of simple passwords, and PAM expects to see the raw password on the server (authenticator) side. > Then, I will probably have a look at the radius > plugin. RADIUS ought to work with any of the authentication mechanisms, but I haven't personally tried it. Perhaps someone else here has ... -- James Carlson