setup question : mschap + perl authentication

[Alan DeKok]

Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> And the advantage of supporting MSChap is that you don't have to store 
> your passwords in cleartext... Just NT4 or LMHash which while not much 
> more secure than cleartext , looks far more impressive in a password 
> database.

  And the server already does the heavy lifting of implementing MS-CHAP.
 Why re-invent the wheel?

> You ok Alan ? You've seemed less yeah go look at this howto / man page 
> and more *stab stab* die recently ...

  Questions like "why are you so mean" can't be answered with "read this
man page".  They require careful analysis.  Though the incidence of such
complaints did go down after Section 5 was added to the top-level README.

  Alan DeKok.