Re: ppp logins
Gary N. McKinney (gmckinney@megabits.net)
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 22:40:10 -0500
Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
> Hiya, happy holidays ..
>
> I've noticed a strange problem lately after upgrading to Radius 2.0. I am
> running Radius 2.0 on a bsd/os 2.1 box right now. I am running ComOS
> 3.3.3 on PM2's. My users file is set up as follows:
>
> # Username Palex runs PPP if alex's UNIX password matches
> DEFAULT Auth-Type = System, Prefix = "P"
> Service-Type = Framed-User,
> Framed-Protocol = PPP,
> Framed-IP-Address = 255.255.255.254,
> Framed-MTU = 1500
>
> # Username alex runs PPP if alex uses PAP to authenticate and port autodetects
> DEFAULT Auth-Type = System, Framed-Protocol = PPP
> Service-Type = Framed-User,
> Framed-Protocol = PPP,
> Framed-IP-Address = 255.255.255.254,
> Framed-MTU = 1500
>
> # Anything else uses Rlogin to the host set for that port
> DEFAULT Auth-Type = System
> Service-Type = Login-User,
> Login-Host = shell.cia-g.com,
> Login-Service = Rlogin
>
> And what I've noticed is that sometimes users will login as "username"
> without the P in front of their name and be on a PPP account! Why is
> this? How is this? Does it have something to di with the fact I have two
> entries for logging into PPP above - do I need them both?
>
Short version: YES...
Longer version ... If your users logging onto the system are running
Win-95
the default for Win-95 is PPP using PAP authentication which would use
entry #2 to activate the ppp session.
Hope the info helps...
(BTW: this is the method we use as most all of our users are setup for
PPP
access to our system ONLY! Cuts down on the problems associated
with
straight telnet sessions ... <grin> )...
Later gm...
> TIA.
>
> - Steve
> - Systems Manager
> - Community Internet Access, Inc.
> - Gallup and Grants, New Mexico