Using the login Option With /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services)

System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

Using the `login` Option With `/etc/ppp/pap-secrets`

You can add the login option for authenticating PAP credentials to any PPP configuration file. When login is specified, for example, in /etc/ppp/options, pppd verifies that the caller's PAP credentials exist in the Solaris password database. The following table shows the format of a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file with the login option.

Table 36-6 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets With login Option


Caller	Server	Password	IP Addresses
joe	*	" "	*
sally	*	" "	*
sue	*	" "	*

The parameters have the following meanings:

Caller	Names of all authorized callers.
Server	Asterisk, which indicates that any server name is valid. The `name` option is not required in the PPP configuration files.
Password	Double quotes, which indicate that any password is valid. If you type a password in this column, then the password that is supplied by the peer must match both the PAP password and the UNIX `passwd` database.
IP Addresses	Asterisk, which indicates that any IP address is allowed.