The reversal of the prompts is enabled by the "set <port> host prompt"
configuration command.
Allan Rubens
Merit
>On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, William Bulley wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but the Merit version allows one user ID (jdoe)
>> to have different reply values from the users file applied to several types
>> of jdoe sessions (telnet, PPP, SLIP, etc.) In fact with 2.4 we support all
>> eight (8) values of the Service-Type attribute (see the DRAFT RFC).
>>
>> This means that jdoe identifies herself as jdoe (not jdoe.ppp or jdoe.slip)
>> and the server inspects the users file for the "canonical" user "pppuser"
>> of "slipuser" depending on the hint in the incoming request found in the
>> Service-Type attribute (provided there isn't already a reply-item for
>> Service-Type found in the reply-items for the "real" jdoe entry.
>>
>> Is every one totally confused at this point? ;^)
>
>Uh...yes. Maybe *I'm* missing something. With the above, how can RADIUS
>know what type of service jdoe wants? If she's PAP-authenticated, and
>RADIUS can figure that out, then obviously it's PPP. But if jdoe just
>enters jdoe at the login prompt and her password at the pw prompt, then
>there's no way for RADIUS to know if it should start a telnet, SLIP, PPP,
>etc... Am I wrong? Is there some sort of challenge?
>
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