[pptp-server] user authentification
Frank Cusack
fcusack at fcusack.com
Thu Jul 4 17:59:11 CDT 2002
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:07:57PM +0200, Sebastien Georget wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed poptop which is running but I'd like to use a NIS
> database to authentificate the users.
> Does anybody has a such installation or a good starting point ?
> I've seen that pppd can use PAM but it seems to work only with PAP (I
> use CHAP-MSv2), I'm also interested in a good faq on that point.
You can't use CHAP (or MS-CHAP) without access to plaintext passwords.
NIS does not provide that, so it's impossible.
/fc
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