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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!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, 24 Jun 1996 11:36:25 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31CDFF29.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> References: <4p533b$6qm@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <31C5A3B1.616@cet.co.jp> <31C4F08A.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> <4q6gii$rsv@hops.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Darryl Watson wrote: > >> 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 > > Modifying getty to autodetect PPP is a lot of work, although it would > make any sysmgr's job easier. It's only 20 lines of code for the ppp detect finite state machine. The author spent more time on other nice to have details. -mh