[pptp-server] LINUX

[Ryan Matijcio]

This may be true.  However, depending how how serious a Microsoft shop this
is I would be careful about hacking solutions togeather.  Many shops
migrating to Win2k will be looking at an Cisco/Microsoft solution  and you
may find yourself retuning everything over and over again.

My 2 cents worth anyways.

Ryan P. Matijcio
Interworx Consulting Corporation
rpm at interworxconsulting.com
416-832-1538

-----Original Message-----
From: Yan Seiner [mailto:yan at cardinalengineering.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 6:03 AM
To: Ryan Matijcio
Cc: Alan Ross; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] LINUX


See inline...

Ryan Matijcio wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> One problem I can see with a Linux pptp server in a large NT enviroment is
> account management.  I can see it being a real nightmare maintaining the
> chap-secrets file (the one that maintains the username and password for
the
> vpn accounts.)  As far as I've read there is nothing to handle this.  In
NT
> you can easily just turn PPTP on or off for an account in user manager.

Actually, you _may_ be able to work around this via a combination of
samba and pptp.  Use a single secret for everyone and make sure it's not
a valid user account, then control access to the linux shares via user
accounts.  The user accounts can be provided by an NT server.

You'd still have old employees being able to connect to the server, but
nnot actually connect to anything once there.

Periodically change the secret...

Just a random thought.

--Yan

>
> However for my own purposes I really like what I've seen so far with Linux
> and pptpd.  I'd urge you to take a look.  (This comming from an MCSE too!
> :-)
>
> Ryan P. Matijcio
> Interworx Consulting Corporation
> rpm at interworxconsulting.com
> 416-832-1538
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org
> [mailto:pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org]On Behalf Of Alan Ross
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 5:36 PM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: [pptp-server] LINUX
>
> It appears I am on the wrong list (blush).  This is a dedicated Linux list
?
> Does anyone know of a Windows NT list.    Is Linux easier to configure
then
> NT ?  Also are you able to configure a Linux pptp gateway so that it can
> forward ip packets to an NT file server ?
>
> Alan,
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> compchat at home.com
>
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