Re: PASSWORD (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:52:05 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Mury Johnson shaped the electrons to say...
>My (possibly incorrect) understanding was that you could not do CHAP with
>the /etc/master.passwd file because CHAP needed clear text passwords.
>For any user needing CHAP you would need a special entry just for them in
>the RADIUS users file.

Yeah, I should have qualified. CHAP is a special case, it requires
cleartext passwords. Which means they must either be stored in the PM
or in RADIUS in cleartext in the users file. You cannot call the UNIX
passwd files with CHAP.

-MZ

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