[pptp-server] Encrypted passwords in chap-secrets file

[Dread Boy]

Glenn, you have to compile in two additional patches into ppp when you build 
it.

1) pppsmb.pat - This patch allows you to authenticate using list from 
/etc/smbpasswd.

2) strip-MSdomain-patch.diff - This patch strips off the preceeding 
DOMAINNAME from DOMAINNAME\\username that Windoze clients send, 
frustratingly enough.  Is it imparitive that the DOMAINNAME/WORKGROUP be 
parsed off before smbpasswd can be used for authentication.

Also, you will need libsmbpw.so source.  This library is required for SMB 
authentication.  Just download the tarball, untar it, make it, then the 
remaining instructions on where to put the ".so" file and the link are 
included.  I put them in /usr/lib on my Redhat 6.2 installation.

There are links to all of these files in this archive.  You just have to 
dig.  Currently, I'm writing a new HOWTO (for dummies) for all this stuff 
for those of us (like me) who have had much trouble even re-compiling my 
kernel to support pptpd for so long.

One thing though, I can't finish the HOWTO until I get a few more questions 
answered first.  My remote dial-up/connections work from anywhere with every 
version of Windoze I've tried so far, however I still can not ping or see 
any machines on the LAN remotely.  Until I get these problems solved, I 
can't finish the "easy pptpd HOWTO for MS Clients".  Once I do, however, I 
will be posting it along with every possible required file on my web site so 
everyone can grab all of the right files from one location.

>From: Glenn.Swonk at tais.com
>To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
>Subject: [pptp-server] Encrypted passwords in chap-secrets file
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:25:01 -0800
>
>Can I use encrypted passwords in the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file?
>
>Reading the documentation, it appears that they are only applicable when
>a linux client is talking to a WinNT system. Is this true?
>
>thanks,
>glenn
>
>
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