Bill Unruh <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
> Clifford Kite <kite@see.signature.id> writes:
> ]Bill Unruh <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> ]> ]-chap
> ]> ]+pap

> ]> With pap?

> ]Err... Info mgetty says mgetty uses PAP. If so then it's likely not
> ]possible to use CHAP.

> mgetty has nothing to do with it. mgetty just opens pppd and all control
> passes to pppd. You can use pap, chat MD5, MSchap or whatever else your
> pppd can handle.

You are right. A quick grep of some mgetty code showed no "+pap" or
"require-pap," so it can use whatever is specified by the AutoPPP line
in login.config. The info pages are a bit misleading.

[Sorry about the email in addition to this reply. Sometimes I don't
pay enough attention to what I'm doing and this time I sent the email
instead of this usenet reply.]

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