Hi, all,
Please excuse me if this question has already been beaten to death
here, but I haven't found a searchable archive, so I can't find out if
it has.
I'm working on trying to establish PPP connections to a Shiva LanRover
56 box from home. The setup here can use PAP authentication, but
requires a password that partially comes from a SecurID card. (4 digit
PIN plus 6 digit SecurID card readout.)
Hence the password cannot be statically saved in pap-secrets. As a
crude hack, I've been able to establish the connection by overwriting
pap-secrets with the dynamic password. At least one other person on
comp.os.linux.networking is using the same hack.
Is there perhaps another, secure solution for dealing with dynamic
passwords that doesn't require doing violence to the *-secrets files?
Thanks,
- Steve.
P.S. Dimitrios Bouras, the author of x-isp, tells me that there used
to be a +ua command line argument to pppd, that could be used to pass
in a password without going through the *-secrets files. This would
have worked, but I gather that it was removed for security reasons.
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