On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 22:07, Murali K. Vemuri wrote:
> hi ,
> i want to use my LINUX box(redhat 7.1 kernel 2.2.16) as ppp server
> i downloaded ppp server 2.4.1 and installed.
> now, i want the authentication of the clients through the PAM .
> as of now, i am able to get through with chap as well as pap.
> i wanna know what changes will make it look at pam?
> regards
> murali krishna vemuri
I think that what you are looking for is the "login" option. From the
pppd man page:
Furthermore, if the login option was specified, the username
and password are also checked against the system password
database. Thus, the system administrator can set up the
pap-secrets file to allow PPP access only to certain users,
and to restrict the set of IP addresses that each user can
use. Typically, when using the login option, the secret in
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets would be "", which will match any pass-
word supplied by the peer. This avoids the need to have the
same secret in two places.
Also, be sure that you really do have pam support built in. The Red Hat
7.1 rpm does. You can check by being sure that it is linked against
libpam. Note the first line of output says that it is linked with the
pam library.
$ ldd /usr/sbin/pppd
libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40026000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4002e000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40032000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40035000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x40063000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
