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Article #18783Re: PAP u. CHAP-Secrets
From: Marc SCHAEFER
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:00
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Orlando Cantieni <o@NSPMdiax.ch> wrote:
> hab ich da ein kleines Problem: Warum ist in der PAP-Secrets
> das Password unverschl�sselt eingetragen ? Ich weiss,
> das Teil ist -r-------- root:sys , und die UNIX-Philosophie
You have two ways to authentify with PPP:
- either the password is stored encrypted on the server, and you
send the password in clear on the line,
- or the password is stored in clear on the server, and you
send a server-issued challenge encrypted with the password,
to the server.
Now, if the question is: why is the password in clear on the client, it's
because it's needed by those two approaches!
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