On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Hossein S. Zadeh wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> > I have a cyclone board (16 port). I have setup /etc/inittab to run
> > mgetty-1.1.22-1.6.x on the ports (on RedHat 6.2 box). I can confirm that
> > the system opens and listens on the ports and accepts incoming calls.
> > However there are two issues:
> >
> > 1) Apparently mgetty/pppd doesn't check /etc/passwd file. I have to put
> > login/password combo into /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Anyone knows why?
> >
> pppd normaly uses /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets to
> validate connections. I don't know if their is an option for pppd to
> use PAM. It may be a compile time option.
> >
> > 2) The server is on 192.168.1.60. Incoming calls get their IP from
> > /etc/ppp/options.ttyCx which is 192.168.1.200 (to 215). After the remote
> > machine gets its IP, and tries to communicate back to the server, the
> > server drops the connection. Any ideas? Corresponding portion of
> > /var/log/messages is enclosed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hossein
> >
> You need to put the valid IP range in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. (Or try
> putting a * for the IP address - that should allow any IP.)
>
> Mikkel
>
Oops - I goofed. In your pap-secrets file, put an entry of:
* <Your server> "" *
That should take care of your problem. This will match any logins to
your machine, any password for the pap part, and use the normal
passwords for the user. (Going to get some coffee, or some sleep now!)
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