Re: (ASCEND) PAP and CHAP with TNT

[Jim Williams <jaw12@ntrnet.net>]

The problem with CHAP is that we have 9000 subscribers and have been doing
PAP from day one with shadow passwords...ALL passwords are currently
encrypted so putting them in a users file will take months to try to
capture the passwords on top of which having a file full of plain text ids
and passwords is somewhat of a security risk...that was the whole reason
behind shadow passwords and encryption on /etc/passwd.

Jim Williams                  Ntrnet Systems, Inc.
President/CEO                 Research Triangle Park, NC
jaw12@ntrnet.net              (919)484-0504 fax(919)484-0782


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Oliver Stettner wrote:

> Jim Williams wrote:
> 
> > We have signed up to resell UUnet dialup nationwide.  We are running into a
> > problem however.  UUnet says that they have their TNT boxes set to do both
> > CHAP and PAP.  Problem we are running in to is that when anyone dials in
> > with Windows 9x it tries to use ONLY CHAP (it does not seem to fall back to
> > PAP when CHAP fails and I know that Microsoft leads with CHAP) and then
> > fails because we really need PAP.  How has everyone gotten around this
> > problem or have you?
> 
> Blame Microsoft for that problem. :-(
> 
> But why can't you use CHAP?
> 
> Oliver.
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