[pptp-server] Re: Bug with pppsmbnoblank.patch solution at last

[Chen Shiyuan]

Hello!

Thanks for your email. Nope, the "easy solution" provided below doesn't 
solve the problem. Same problems still occur.

BTW, has someone incorporated in a fix into the original smbpasswd 
patch? It seems pretty strange that while this bug is officially "known" 
and supposedly fixed, the smbpasswd patch which I downloaded from the 
main site a couple of weeks back still has the blank problem.

Thanks!

On Thu, 24 May 2001 15:58:59 +1200, Godfrey Livingstone 
<glivingstone at ajpark.co.nz> wrote :

> HI I wrote the patch that you obtained from hataway.co.nz
> also the patch for 2.4 that authenticates against smbpasswd this
> applies
> as much to 2.2 as to 2.2.
> 
> The patch to use is
> 
> http://www.hattaway.co.nz/raidpatches/pppsmbnoblank.patch
> 
> There appeared to be a problem with the patch but until your post
> I was
> never able to solve it as it worked on the hattaway servers.
> 
> The  easy solution is to have your secrets file look like this
> 
> # Secrets for authentication using CHAP 
> # client      server      secret                               I
> P addresses 
> *                 *               &/etc/ppp/smbpasswd        * 
> 
> The reason that it does not work for you is that the server test
> does not
> have an entry in the smbpasswd file so is unable to find a
> password.
> You are interested in authenticating the client and not the
> server in any
> case.  The way your config file is set up you require a password
> for test
> to be the same as any user connecting and this can never be the
> case
> unless all passwords are the same.