mgetty & AutoPPP

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Marc,

Well I'm certainly confused.  Do you know of a docuement I can download
that explains how PAP/CHAP work from the server's side.  The PPP HOWTO goes
into a little detail from the client side but not enough for me to
understand what the server is supposed to be doing.

Thanks for your help.

Tom



Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

> If you use the ``login'' option of pppd, then the system will use
> encrypted passwords from /etc/passwd to authentify PPP users. You thus
> presumably do not need a chap-secrets or pap-secrets file.
>
> That's maybe what Mick Dennis' document is talking about.
>
> I personally use *CHAP* authentification (+chap -pap), passwords
> in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, and I do not use the login option.