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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.itjit.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI? Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:43:38 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 31 Message-ID: <31C4F08A.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> References: <4p533b$6qm@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <31C5A3B1.616@cet.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Michael Hancock wrote: > > Lance Cavener wrote: > > > > Do you ever think BSD will throw a good PPP program in their next > > release of BSDI? I have had my eye on some commercial PPP packages for > > some time now, and after upgrading to BSDI, and confusing the hell out > > of all my users with the P it adds to the begining of the usernames, I > > think a commercial package with CHAP/PAP is very tempting. But before > > I dish out a few hundred, I just want to know if BSD is going to get > > to us a good PPP program? > > Commercial PPP packages such as MorningStar still require using a scheme > like Pusername if your terminal server serves both shell and PPP. More background... I think BSDI chose to use the 'Pusername' scheme for the same reasons 'Uusername' or 'Usitename' is often used for UUCP logins. It differentiates the PPP connection from the e-mail account; allows both type of connections to authenticate using Unix login; and using capital letters prevents the account from receiving mail which you usually don't want. > You can get around it by modifying getty to auto-detect PPP and launch a > PPP startup script that ensures you use CHAP or PAP authentication. > > Someone is working on this for FreeBSD, but you should the code should > work on BSDI too. Search the hackers mailing list at > http://www.freebsd.org The code should be available in a couple of > weeks. > > -mh