Some users have more than one server to which they connect that use PAP.
Provided that your user name is different on each machine to which you
want to connect, this is not a problem.
However, many users have the same user name on two (or more - even all)
systems to which they connect. This then presents a problem in correctly
selecting the appropriate line from /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.
As you might expect, PPP provides a mechanism for overcoming this. PPP
allows you to set an 'assumed name' for the remote (server) end of the
connection using the remotename option to pppd.
Let us suppose that you connect to two PPP servers using the username
fred. You set up your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets something like
fred pppserver1 barney
fred pppserver2 wilma |
Now, to set connect to pppserver1 you would use name fred remotename
pppserver1 in your ppp-options and for pppserver2 name fred
remotename pppserver2.
As you can select the ppp options file to use with pppd using the
file filename option, you can set up a script to connect to each of
your PPP servers, correctly picking the options file to use and hence
selecting the right remotename option.
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