Re: PPP & Shell with the same account

John W. Temples (john@kuwait.net)
Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:52:47 +0300 (GMT)

> Now here's where my problem comes in. We want to issue our users just
> one username/password pair.

It can't be done with the Livingston RADIUS server as distributed.

> If they come in with the PPP autentication
> protocol turned on we would like them to get the PPP session. If they
> type the username/password on the $host login: line we would like them to get
> to their shell account.

The PM can do this, but it requires modifying the RADIUS server or using
Merit's server.

> Recent postings on the list alluded to using Pusername or username.PPP
> for the PPP session, but I've had no luck with that.

That requires 1) patching the RADIUS server and 2) having multiple
entries for each user in your "users" file.

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