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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI? Date: 18 Jun 1996 15:04:50 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4q6gii$rsv@hops.entertain.com> References: <4p533b$6qm@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <31C5A3B1.616@cet.co.jp> <31C4F08A.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.144.250.82 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <31C4F08A.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp>, Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> says: > >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 Modifying getty to autodetect PPP is a lot of work, although it would make any sysmgr's job easier. In any case, we have been running BSDI 2.0 w/ patches for a couple years now, I think, and since before that release was out, we have had our users run a startup script for PPP as part of their login scripts. As soon as they get a unix prompt, they type 'ppp' and hit return. This directly runs the /usr/bin/ppp binary. The upside of this is that shell users do not have to have a different account for their PPP access... the downside is that PPP users also have access to the shell!