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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:14:35 GMT
Organization: VSi
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Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> wrote:

>Darryl Watson wrote:

>> >> 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.

>It's only 20 lines of code for the ppp detect finite state machine.  The author
>spent more time on other nice to have details.

 You know, it would be nice if we could get an address to exacty WHERE
this thing is! I spent about 2 hours searching for it on the hackers
mailing list, and I gave up..


 Lance