John Hasler wrote: > No. Each user would have his own chatscript in /etc/chatscripts and his > own provider file in /etc/ppp/peers, with names like > /etc/chatscripts/viktors-ppp and /etc/ppp/peers/viktors-ppp. The > administrator would set these up using pppconfig in the normal fashion and > then chown the chatscripts appropriately. Viktor could then start up ppp > with 'pon viktors-ppp' but when John ran the same command it would fail, > and only Viktor and root would be able to read > /etc/chatscripts/viktors-ppp.
I just realized, that Debian has the PPP infrastructure right in place (dialing scripts etc.). Up until now, I only read the through the PPP-HOWTO and followed the procedures outlined there to create the scripts myself. Ah, well. pppconfig is not mentioned in the HOWTO, so it's obviously something Debian-specific. (Looks like the slink instalation utility, too.) I gave it a try, and it works pretty well, although I had to modify the created chatscript, since I have to start the PPP connection on the server by issueing a command. John Hasler wrote: > It might also be possible to use chat's new environment variable and/or > include capability to get a password from another file. The expample dialing script in the PPP-HOWTO uses a environment variable for the password, so it should be possible to enter something like `read PASSWORD' in the script and have the chatscript use that. Haven't tried it though. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
