>
> Has anybody run into this problem?
>
> A user has a ppp account that is verified by the radiusd server. He
> can log in from his pc, but has DNS errors and later gets kicked off
> for no apparent reason. Now, what we do is go into the setup.cmd
> (from winsock) and change his user name to say my login name. I can
> get on, and have no dns problems. Now I change it to yet another account
> (and another and another) and they are all able to resolve host names
> from netscape and telnet. Now, I put his login back in. Everything stops
> all of a sudden. Initially, one might think that his account is screwed
> up, something mistyped, or *something*. Yet, his account is exactly
> identitical to all of our other ones. What's even more puzzling is say
> I make a dummy user (joe schmoe). I can log into that account, BUT when
> I modify his login name to some other name ("his" being the original ppp
> user who had problems), HE can't log in!!!! This is the most ridiculous
> and mind boggling problem I have run into yet. Does anybody have a clue
> how to fix this "bug"? It's as if his name is jinxed or something. I
> can't explain it.....
>
> Anybody have any light to shed on this problem? Note, that his account
> is IDENTITICAL to all of the hundred or so that I tried and that some
> non-living person I made up can log in too, but when I change his name
> (full name to his real name), it <insert bad sayings here> @#!$@!^&@!#!@
>
> Elya.
>
Since you haven't described your setup, this may not be your problem...
I had shadow compiled for 16 char passwords, but radius only 8. I could
verify his pw on the authenticate host, but not thru dial-up. We changed
the users pw to use 8 chars and alls well. Time to look at radius again
to see if 16 chars is an option. Dont remember--My brain is full!!!!
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