I have no idea what causes this but it pissed me off aswell. So I made a
file called /bin/dam-pap
#!/bin/sh
rm -f /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
Then I added this into cron, to delete it every 10 minutes.
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /bin/dam-pap
And no, I didn't need the pap-secrets file for user authentication.
Dan
At 09:29 PM 4/23/98 -0500, Robert W. Canary wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a really wierd thing happening ........
>
>When I get a new dial-up user . I always put there username in the
>pap-secrets file. Like this ....
>
>rwcanary * "" *
>
>Now, notice the last star "*" with out this star a dialin user will
>always fail the PAP Authentication. The last column tells PAP if/what
>an IP address is assigned. A star implies that any address is Okay.
>
>If I 'm wrong here please jump in and correct me .....
>
>The problem is this:
>
>After creating the user (With Control Panel- User Config). I then go
>to the pap secrets file and include the name with an entry as I
>described above. I then try the dial-up account myself from a machine
>here in the office. The account works fine. Within a random time
>frame, I recieve a number of logon failures in my log files due to PAP
>Authetication failure. When I check the pap-secrets file it has
>changed back to a configuration that I had over two user ago. The
>last user entered is completely gone and the "*" is removed from the
>last column of the next user.
>
>Can anyone explain this.
>
>thanks in advance.
>--
>robert
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