[pptp-server] Authentication fails against password encrypted

[Charlie Brady]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Fabio Oliveira wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am using pptp w/ mppe and everything was running fine until I encrypt the
> password in the chap-secrets file via a cgi script, so now when I try
> connect I get the message user and/or password invalid in domain.
>
> Is there any issue to use encrypted password in the chap-secrets file?

Depends on how they are encrypted. As long as you use the NT password hash
algorithm (as used, for example, by smbpasswd from the samba program)
encrypted passwords should be OK.

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