Re: Custom authentication method

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 :-)

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Charlie


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