On 08-Dec-2000 Patrick Hartmann wrote: > how can i force ipppd to accept only one given user for dial in. > > I have some ipppd running for connecting my side to different > remote sides. (ISPs, customers etc.) and one ipppd for dialing in > on my machine. > > At the moment the dial-in ipppd accepts any given pair in the > pap/chap-secrets files. This means everyone i connect to, would > be able to connect to my box and this is not what i want. > > As I understood the man page the "remotename" option is for this, > but if i specify a name nevertheless every other name is allowed. > > Also using the /etc/passwd with the login option is an alternative > for the login, but not a must. Do you use auth option. If you have noauth option set it will allow connection with anything as password/secret. Note: You should ask questions regarding ppp in linux-ppp mailing list. Bye, Milan -------------------------------------------------- /"\ \ / X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -------------------------------------------------- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
