On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Geof Goodrum wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> The only requirement for PAP and CHAP logins is an entry in the secrets
> file; no user login account is required (though you would need a dummy
Dummy? You mean shared? No home directory? Regardless of CHAP and
PAP you need an entry in /etc/passwd,
> account with a pppd shell if you didn't use AutoPPP). PPP authentication
and a real account with a password if you _did_ use AutoPPP.
About the only other thing you can do is replace the * /bin/login
default at the end of login.config with pppd. And that case is just
like AutoPPP - you need the login option and PAP.
> does not use the password file unless the 'login' option is specified.
> This is really handy if all users have both shell and PPP privileges.
Hmm... if they have both it doesn't matter, you are using
/etc/passwd.
In this situation AutoPPP is a little bit handy, but they can get
shell over PPP so it's really redundant.
> > ppp:x:1002:1002:ppp:/home/ppp:/usr/sbin/pppd
> I note that the PPP FAQ (9.2) says that you should not execute
> /usr/sbin/pppd directly, but execute a shell script that exec's pppd
> instead to ensure that it receives the SIGHUP signal properly.
Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't know.
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