Configuring CHAP Authentication for Trusted Callers (Dial-out Machines)

This section contains tasks for setting up CHAP authentication on the dial-out machines of trusted callers. Depending on your site's security policy, either you or the trusted callers might be responsible for setting up CHAP authentication.

If remote callers are to configure CHAP, be sure that the callers' CHAP secrets correspond with the CHAP secrets that are listed for them in the dial-in server's /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file. Then give the callers the tasks in this section for configuring CHAP.

Configuring CHAP for trusted callers involves two tasks:

• Creating the callers' CHAP security credentials

• Configuring the callers' dial-out machines to support CHAP authentication