Samba PDC with VPN access

Jon Theil Nielsen jontheil at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 14:01:16 PDT 2008


2008/3/21, Sin <sinister at gmail.com>:
>
> I just happen to be looking into vpn stuff with FreeBSD,   I was looking
> at
> the man page for ppp, there is a section that states passwd(5) can be used
> instead of a secret file.  Not sure if this entirely relates to your
> setup,
> but I will be trying this out
>
> /*
> If MyAuthPasswd is a ``*'', the password is looked up in the passwd(5)
>      database.
> */


BTW, I think this is a method to authenticate yourself when establishing a
connection from your own machine to another one. One something I can use to
authenticate outside users to my (VPN) server.

Regards,
Jon


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