On 5/17/05, Ryan Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Multiple things utilising ppp can use that chap-secrets file for > authentication, so you typically put a descriptor in there that defines > that authentication line as unique (which /technically/ is meant to be > the machines hostname, but I certainly don't use it like that) - for > example, you only want pptpd to authenticate against a few defined > passwords, instead of anything in that file (*). > > That's defined in the ppp options file (whether that's pptpd-options, or > the pptp client config file) as 'name'. > > Right now I'm on a connection that both takes internal wireless > connections via a poptop server, and has an external connection via wifi > via a encrypted ppp connection (as I can't get ADSL at my current > residence, but can link to a client up the road from me who can - ADSL2+ > this week hopefully!). My internal usernames/passwords are tagged > 'wireless', and the external link has a single password tagged > 'extlink'. This is useful because I don't want to be able to > authenticate using the internal passwords on the external connection, > and vice-versa.
I think you need to tell us more about this setup of yours. Sounds very interesting :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
