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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.itjit.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI? Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:28:01 -0700 Organization: CET Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31C5A3B1.616@cet.co.jp> References: <4p533b$6qm@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gaucho.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Lance Cavener wrote: > > Do you ever think BSD will throw a good PPP program in their next > release of BSDI? I have had my eye on some commercial PPP packages for > some time now, and after upgrading to BSDI, and confusing the hell out > of all my users with the P it adds to the begining of the usernames, I > think a commercial package with CHAP/PAP is very tempting. But before > I dish out a few hundred, I just want to know if BSD is going to get > to us a good PPP program? Commercial PPP packages such as MorningStar still require using a scheme like Pusername if your terminal server serves both shell and PPP. You can get around it by modifying getty to auto-detect PPP and launch a PPP startup script that ensures you use CHAP or PAP authentication. Someone is working on this for FreeBSD, but you should the code should work on BSDI too. Search the hackers mailing list at http://www.freebsd.org. The code should be available in a couple of weeks. -mh