Win95 to Linux PPP

[Jerry Feldman]

> Having been a Win95 beta customer, I was most annoyed to find that Microsoft
> ripped out support for login chat during PPP initialization.  (They wanted
> to sell more NT servers, I guess :-|)
> 
> Has anyone here configured a Linux box to authenticate PPP users without
> going through a login prompt?
> 
> If you use the login prompt instead of PAP/CHAP, you wind up having to
> manually type the login name and password--Win95 doesn't have a way to
> automate this.
If you get dial-up scripting from the Plus cd-rom, you can automate the 
procedure. The scripting has the capability to grab the login name and 
password from the connect screen. I initially used the scripting to connect to 
my provider when I first went to win95. I have since removed the scripting 
because it was unnecessary in my case.

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