Hi Mike,
The login option means that the user must exist in the pap-secrets file and in
your /etc/password.
Probably with same password too. I found that it also works better if
passwords in pap-secrets is of the form "password".
Mike Hill wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I finally got back to testing my problem with AutoPPP and pppd
> authenticating my users.
>
> Restating my original problem, if I had the "login" option in
> /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config my users would get dropped with "PAP login
> failure". If I took out the login option they could get in, but the
> /var/log/messages file would not show who had logged in. Likewise the "who"
> command only stated "a_ppp".
>
> I have it working better now.... Somewhat. I tried turning off the MD5
> support as Axalon suggested, and it had no noticeable effect.
>
> The one thing I did do was to put the "login" option back in the
> login.config file and also changed the "-chap" to "+chap". So basically I
> had chap and pap selected along with the login option. I then copied my
> pap-secrets file from /etc/ppp to chap-secrets also. So the two files were
> identical. Before I was just using the pap-secrets file and chap-secrets
> was blank.
>
> That allowed everyone to get in. The /var/log/messages file does show who
> logged in. The "who" command still only shows "a_ppp". The pppd man page
> says that the "login" option should update the wtmp file, but the who
> command still shows only the a_ppp. I may be making the wrong assumption on
> what the "login" command is for though. It may be the login command only
> works with PAP logins, and it seems like my Windows users dialing in are
> getting in through chap. I'm assuming that was my problem before. Since I
> didn't have a chap-secrets file the Windows users couldn't get in. I was
> assuming that windows used PAP.
>
> So basically I have it working well enough for now. It would just be nice
> to go that extra inch and have the dial in users show up by login name.
>
> Mike
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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