Setting Up PAP Authentication (Task
Maps)
Use the next task maps to quickly access PAP-related tasks for
the dial-in server and trusted callers on dial-out machines.
Table 13 Task
Map for PAP Authentication (Dial-in Server)
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1. Gather preconfiguration information
| Collect user names and other data that is needed for authentication.
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2. Update the password database, if necessary
| Ensure that all potential callers are in the server's password
database.
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3. Create the PAP database
| Create security credentials for all prospective callers in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.
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4. Modify the PPP configuration files
| Add options specific to PAP to the /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/peer-name files.
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Table 14 Task Map for PAP Authentication (Dial-out Machine)
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1. Gather preconfiguration information
| Collect user names and other data that is needed for authentication.
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2. Create the PAP database for the trusted caller's machine
| Create the security credentials for the trusted caller and,
if necessary, security credentials for other users who call the dial-out
machine, in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.
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3. Modify the PPP configuration files
| Add options specific to PAP to the /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/peer-name files.
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