Subject: Re: secrets
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@fb.sa.enteract.com>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/29/1998 08:41:22
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Thu, 28 May 1998, Jym & Sharon Brittain wrote:
> 
> > Awhile back. before suffering a massive disk failure, I had NetBSD up and 
> > running connecting to my ISP with a PPP connection using chap 
> > authorization. Being the manly man type that I am [insert fool here] I 
> > never backed up my bookmarks on where I collected it from.
> > 
> > I know it was a collection of pppd scripts. One of them was called 
> > chap-secrets. If this rings a bell to anyone, please pass the url on to me.

There are two sets of ppp kits on ftp.macbsd.com. You can easily add chap
support to them.

> chap-secrets isn't a script--it contains your password(s) for your ISP. 
> See `man pppd' for the explanation of how it's constructed. The following
> one-liner will probably work, assuming everything else is correct.
> 
> boleyhs		*	your-password	*
> 
> That goes in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.

Yep.

Take care,

Bill