Re: PPP & Shell with the same account

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:43:44 -0500 (EST)

According to owner-portmaster-users@livingston.com:
>
> If this is in a FAQ somewhere, please point me to it.....

It ain't but it should be! :-)

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

I should think that most people would, and except for special situations
and/or a past history of multiple accounts, you can do this (we do!)...

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

Try the Merit of version RADIUS which uses only one account (we call them
accessIDs) for any protocol on the PortMaster.

Regards,

web...

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