[pptp-server] user authentification

[Frank Cusack]

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