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Bug 190110 - net-dialup/ppp - Add usage of non-cleartext-passwords in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets for mschap-v2
Summary: net-dialup/ppp - Add usage of non-cleartext-passwords in /etc/ppp/chap-secret...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement
Assignee: Gentoo Dialup Developers
URL: http://osdir.com/ml/network.poptop/20...
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Reported: 2007-08-24 22:54 UTC by Stefan Behte (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-08-25 03:52 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2007-08-24 22:54:37 UTC 
See the following message & patch:
http://osdir.com/ml/network.poptop/2006-12/msg00005.html
http://osdir.com/ml/network.poptop/2006-12/txt3zTuL6C5hj.txt
Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-25 03:52:33 UTC 
There is no way of determining if a password is a NT hash or not - people could have passwords that could be mistakenly interpreted as NT hash and the patch will break pppd for them.

Closed as WONTFIX.