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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!in2.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI? Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:44:42 GMT Organization: VSi Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4q61co$d0l@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <4p533b$6qm@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <31C5A3B1.616@cet.co.jp> <31C4F08A.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: mctnts01c39.nbnet.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> wrote: >Michael Hancock wrote: >> >> 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. >More background... I think BSDI chose to use the 'Pusername' scheme for >the same reasons 'Uusername' or 'Usitename' is often used for UUCP logins. >It differentiates the PPP connection from the e-mail account; allows both >type of connections to authenticate using Unix login; and using capital >letters prevents the account from receiving mail which you usually don't >want. Yeah but because it has a capitol letter in the username that user cannot read his/her mail - so what good is that? 2 accounts for one person? ;P Lance