Quoth Arthur H. Edwards, > I am a very happy convert from Red Hat via SuSE to Debian. I will give > you two disadvantages that spawn others. The release dates are > infrequent. Also, IMHO, the current religious war over the meaning of > Free is not serving the user base. It is apparently serving some of > the more devout developers. The most recent instance in which I felt a > disadvantage was when I had to log into a MS server over a ppp > connection. The MS server required an encrypted password before I > could even start exchanging the standard PPP information. It turns out > that Red Hat has something called ms-chat that would allow me to do > this using Linux. I will really need this tool soon so I hope that > debian can refocus more on the distribution and less on policy. I think you mean ms-chap, not ms-chat. Debian does seem to have ms-chap already built-in to it's pppd from /usr/share/doc/ppp/changelog.Debian.gz ppp (2.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * get rid of dependence on libpam (closes: #15665) * applied ms-chap patch from Kent Robotti <robotti@erols.com> -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 19:28:42 +0000 Of course, I've never got it working myself, but that doesn't mean it isn't there :) cheers, damon -- Damon Muller (dm-sig6@empire.net.au) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) -
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