Dialup Password

[hammilin]

Hi folks,

I am currently using Red Hat Enterprise Linux V5 in my Dell machine.
i have configured my dell machine as dial in server so that some one call my machine from a remote PC and can access it. I have a problem in setting up the secondary password authentication in my dell machine.

Here is the scenario

I have my dell machine [RHEL] configured for modem and ready to accept calls. When i try to connect Dell machine [Rhel] from a Windows PC using the Hyper Terminal i am able to see the welcome screen in the hyper terminal screen and this followed by a Username and password. Once i entered the password i can see the Kshell prompt displayed but i need a secondary password authentication such that once i entered the Password it should request for an another password. Please help me in how to congigure this.


Thanks in advance

[Rubberman]

I have to ask why you want to do this? You can certainly set up /etc/bash_profile so that if the user is coming in on the dialup line it could validate them with another password and force a hangup if it fails, but the only purpose that I can think of is to thwart war-dialer programs, and the standard Linux login that will hangup if the password is entered incorrectly three times should pretty much deal with those, IMO.

[hammilin]

Hi Rubberman,

Thank you for your reply.

But i need a configuration in such a way that i will authenticate the user with two password entries. is it possible to configure any files so that when a user login to the dial in system remotely must answer these three questions

username:

password:

dialup password:

[Rubberman]

Then you could modify the source code for the login command (/bin/login) so that if it detects that the user is connecting via a dialup line it can ask for a dialup password, and authenticate that separately from the normal password. That would be the most reasonable approach I would think.