NAME

pppauth − Point-to-Point authentication database

SYNOPSIS

/etc/inet/pppauth

DESCRIPTION

The /etc/inet/pppauth file contains information used by the PPP Password Authentication Protocol (PAP).  in.pppd(1M) processes all PPP requests by comparing the fields in the PAP Authentication-Request message with entries in /etc/inet/pppauth. 

Each authentication specification is on its own single line in the format:

NamePassword

A ‘#’ indicates the beginning of a comment; characters appearing after ‘#’ are ignored.  Fields are separated by “white space”. 

Name is used for comparison with the peer-id field of a PAP Authentication-Request message during negotiation.  Name is either the local host (which is indicated by a ‘∗’ at the beginning of the entry) or the name of a peer host.  For a peer this is often, but not necessarily, the peer’s hostname. 

Password is the password for the host identified by Name. It is compared to the “password” field of a PAP Authentication-Request message during connection negotiation.  It must be known by both hosts in the negotiation.

EXAMPLES

        Example 1  −  Typical /etc/inet/pppauth File

#
#PPPauth - PPP authentication name/secret file
#NamePassword
#
∗krusty.i88.isc.comBull/∗ local host ID/password ∗/
laiout.i88.isc.comBlazer/∗ remote host ID/password ∗/

FILES

/etc/inet/ppphosts

SEE ALSO

pppd(1M), host(4), ppphosts(4).