Re: tlug: PAP and CHAP

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

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tlug note from Craig Oda <craig@example.com>
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On Sun, 18 May 1997, Jason Molenda wrote:

> They are correct--as soon as you're looking at chat scripts with
> things matching for "login:", you're going down the wrong path.
> 
> PAP and CHAP, as I understand it, work outside this chat-script approach.

This is my understanding as well.   I use PAP. 


> It seems that the most likely place for this information on your Linux
> system is /etc/ppp (? /etc/pppd?), a filename something like
> "chap-secrets".  There was a discussion about the format of this file
> on the list about a week ago.  Put your AT&T account password &
> login-name in that file, and you'll log straight in.

Yes, this sounds correct.  Incidently, ATT probably has a configuration
file for Linux if you try asking them.  Linux is not that minority
of a platform anymore.   

Regards,
Craig


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