FC3 ppp authentication question

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 01:57 -0500, Dennis Calhoun wrote:
> I am a student, so please bear with me.
> 
> I am trying to use my FC3 box at home to dial into a Windows Server
> 2003 machine at school, but I am finding no means of making the
> authentication method of Linux match that of the Winblows box, which
> is requiring MS-CHAP V2.
> 
> My question is...
> Is there a way to direct FC3 to use MS-CHAP V2 authentication across a
> PPP dialup connection? If so, how?

You might try telling pppd to refuse to use any other form of
authentication by using the following pppd options:

refuse-chap
refuse-mschap
refuse-eap
refuse-pap

That will leave it with only mschap-v2 as an option.

Worth a try.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>