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From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI?
Date: 18 Jun 1996 15:06:35 GMT
Organization: ABWAM, Inc.
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In article <4q61co$d0l@agate.nbnet.nb.ca>, cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) says:
>
>Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> Yeah but because it has a capitol letter in the username that user
>cannot read his/her mail - so what good is that? 2 accounts for one
>person? ;P
>
> Lance
>

I think there is a parameter you can set in the /etc/sendmail.cf file
which allows accounts with capital letters to get their mail.

I agree that 2 accounts per user is stupid.