One Time Passwords and Unix PPP

jlorenz@bert.sandisk.com
Thu, 24 Oct 96 09:28:27 PST

Hi,

Can anyone help me out with a one time password problem.

We have a PM2E that we use as a corporate remote access server. We are
converting authentication over from Radius to aSecurity Dynamics ACE server
behind the Radius to do one-time-only passwords - ie: token card authentication.

My question concerns how the remote user gets the one time passcode off the
token card lcd and into the password during the ppp login.

A WIN95 user just uses the Win95 ppp dialer - which pops up the username and
password dialog box during the connect dialog. So that is handled.

How does a Linux user do this. There is no pop up dialog box during the ppp
login. The username/password is hardcoded in the chat script. Since the passcode
changes every 60 seconds...this won't work.

Is there a ppp driver for Linux that will prompt the user for a password rather
than using a hardcoded value in a chat script? Anybody have a pointer to a
hacked PPP for Linux?

tia
jim lorenz
sandisk corp
(somebody stole my squiggles!)