[Samba] Re: Authenticating PPTP users against Samba/LDAP - Patch doesn't seem to be working

[Robert Schetterer]

Hi,
thx for the info i will try this too.
i compiled a suse pack now out of ppp-2.4.3
and will give infos back to the list if winbind feature works like desired
Regards

Beast schrieb:

> Alex Brown wrote:
>
>> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:44, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a few remote user who use a PPTP based VPN. The server is 
>>>> running
>>>> PoPToP (http://www.poptop.org/), and a pppd patched to support 
>>>> MPPE/MPPC
>>>> for (some) added security. Currently, users authentication information
>>>> is stored in plaintext in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets. I'd like to be 
>>>> able to
>>>> put users into LDAP, and have ppp authenticate either directly against
>>>> LDAP, or against Samba (with an LDAP backend). Any ideas on how I 
>>>> might
>>>> go about this? Most of the docs I've seen suggest that you can't 
>>>> use PAM
>>>> for authentication with CHAP, so it seems not to be as simple as I 
>>>> might
>>>> have hoped.
>>>>
>
> Not related to samba, but I'm using freeradius to authenticate vpn 
> users againts ldap (using sambaNTpassword attribute), works fine for 
> months, and as a bonus we get a detail report of user activities.
>
> poptop -> freeradius -> ldap.
>