Re: PPTP Change

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 13:44 -0700, Russell Suter wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have my NetworkManager-pptp working now but I had to make one change 
> in the source get it to authenticate.  We use mschapv2 at my workplace 
> and when the credentials were being passed to the server, it was 
> failing.  The problem was that it was passing the username as 
> DOMAIN\\USERNAME which doesn't work.  After a bit of playing with 
> wireshark, I was able to deduce the username should be sent 
> DOMAIN\USERNAME.  When I changed it, it worked.

SVN revisions 23 and 24, thanks!

I have no idea why I initially made it DOMAIN\\USERNAME; but it's pretty
clear that's wrong.

Dan

> Now, I know almost nothing about this stuff so I suspect this isn't the 
> best solution since I'm sure other people are using it this way. But, 
> I'm providing the patch for what I did to make it work for me in hopes 
> that someone more knowledgeable can come up with a better solution.
> 
> 
> 
> Index: nm-pptp-service.c
> ===================================================================
> --- nm-pptp-service.c    (revision 22)
> +++ nm-pptp-service.c    (working copy)
> @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
>  
>      /* Success */
>      if (strlen (priv->domain))
> -        *out_username = g_strdup_printf ("%s\\\\%s", priv->domain, 
> priv->username);
> +        *out_username = g_strdup_printf ("%s\\%s", priv->domain, 
> priv->username);
>      else
>          *out_username = g_strdup (priv->username);
>      *out_password = g_strdup (priv->password);
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Russ
> 
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