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#! rnews 1301 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!usenet From: reese@chem.duke.edu (Charles Reese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PPP Dial-in security questions Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 14:09:48 GMT Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <32cbc02b.84472863@news.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: async249-57.async.duke.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33485 I am using (user) ppp to provide dial-in support. The current scheme has the user login using a regular getty Name,Password sequence with the users 'shell' being ppp-dialin which is a link to ppp-shell etc. When the ppp program starts up it gives a warning messages saying there is no security etc. because I am not using PAP or CHAP. My question is when the user logs in this way is PAP or CHAP still neccesary? If so why? Can someone who has no account on the machine still use the dial-in lines? I would really appreciate it if someone could explain these issues in some detail. Thanks Charlie Reese