How about integrating Merit RADIUS for NetBSD as a RAS?

On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, John Nemeth wrote:

> On Nov 10,  2:42pm, "Tom T. Thai" wrote:
> } On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, John Nemeth wrote:
> } > On Nov 9, 11:13pm, Jon Buller wrote:
> } > }
> } > } It seems better to me if I could just make pppd the login shell,
> } > } but I need client1 to change based on the login, eliminating (as
> } > 
> } >      Put 'server:client1' in ~/.ppprc.  If you're doing dynamic
> } > addressing, then put it in /etc/ppp/tty.<whatever>.
> } > 
> } > } far as I know) /etc/ppp/options.  And putting x:y as a shell argument
> } > 
> } >      Use options for common options.
> } 
> } is there a way to do this by assign each serial line an ip address and 
> } not have to use the user's home dir at all?
> 
>      See above.  Use /etc/ppp/tty.<whatever>.  See man pppd for full
> details.  If you want to take it one step further, you can use the
> latest mgetty beta.  It has the option to recognise incoming PPP
> packets and automatically start pppd.  This will let callers use
> PAP/CHAP authentication, and not have to write scripts.  If you start
> pppd with the 'login' option, it will use the system password file to
> do PAP authentication and make utmp entries.  I hacked pppd to also
> make wtmp entries.
> 
> }-- End of excerpt from "Tom T. Thai"
> 


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