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.

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 a password is in this column, then the password from the peer must match both the PAP password and the UNIX passwd database.

IP Addresses

Asterisk, which indicates that any IP address is allowed.