Re: PAP authentication with encrypted passwords?

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From: Jim Segrave
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:00

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In article <356F2386.84604954@cryogen.com>,
Steven Mouwen  <stevmouw@cryogen.com> wrote:
> How can I use encrypted passwords to work while loging in demon.nl?
> I use pap-secrets and it works with a unencrypted password. Now I put
> papcrypt in /etc/ppp/options and use crypt/3 with some random seed to
> encrypt the password and put that so encrypted password on the place of
> password in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets but this doesn't work. Should I use
> some special seed?  Encrypt in a other way? Does demon not suppot it?
> What should I do instead?

You can't. We don't support encrypted passwords, as that would require
us to have the clear text version of your password available, which we
do not have.

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From: Jim Segrave <jes@nl.demon.net>
Subject: Re: PAP authentication with encrypted passwords?
Date: 1998/06/19
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