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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Windows 95/NT/Workgroups RAS server Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 03:55:32 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <33CCA8A4.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> References: <ED9u7H.6E5@vindaloo.com> <xkqsoxhbt0d.fsf@platinum.com> <EDDKsB.Iun@vindaloo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44511 [mailed and posted] Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > > wife is at home and can connect to the local lan. The problem is that > she needs to have this access away from the home to. I'm sure that > what I need is an account on a FreeBSD box called something stupid > like pppuser that automatically exec's a copy of pppd from .profile > and then uses PAP or CHAP to authenticate. From there I cannot see a > difference between her working at home or on the road. Or she need not even log in, given proper setup of pppd or ppp and the appropriate changes to your /etc/gettytab. See man page on gettytab(5) and on ppp(8)/pppd(8) - all the smarts for intelligent recognition of an incoming ppp connection are there and only require configuration. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.