Bug 190110

Summary:	net-dialup/ppp - Add usage of non-cleartext-passwords in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets for mschap-v2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Dialup Developers <net-dialup>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://osdir.com/ml/network.poptop/2006-12/msg00005.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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.