Re: Custom authentication method

Andrew Williamson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.poptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/15/2011 2:06 PM, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Andrew Williamson wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in writing a custom authentication method for poptop. I
>> wrote an auth plugin for OpenVPN which checks against a PostgreSQL
>> database for username / password and I'm interested in reusing it so
>> account information isn't duplicated&  I don't have to run a script
>> every 5s to update chap-secrets.
>>
>> Any ideas where I should begin?
> The pppd source code, in the plugins directory. Authentication is a
> function of ppp, not poptop.
>
>> I downloaded the latest release (1.3.4)
>> but I can't seem to find the code that handles user authentication when
>> someone connects.
> See above :-)
>
> --
> Charlie
>
>
Thanks for your help. I wasn't aware it utilized pppd. Sorry for the 
silly question.

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