affect its behaviour in various ways. The idea of plugins is to
provide a way for people to customize the behaviour of pppd without
having to either apply local patches to each version or get their
-patches accepted into the standard distribution. My aim is that
-plugins will be able to be used with successive versions of pppd
-without needing to recompile the plugins.
+patches accepted into the standard distribution.
A plugin is a standard shared library object, typically with a name
ending in .so. They are loaded using the standard dlopen() library
call, so plugins are only supported on systems which support shared
libraries and the dlopen call. At present pppd is compiled with
-plugin support only under Linux.
+plugin support only under Linux and Solaris.
Plugins are loaded into pppd using the `plugin' option, which takes
one argument, the name of a shared object file. The plugin option is
-a privileged option. I suggest that you give the full path name of
-the shared object file; if you don't, it may be possible for
+a privileged option. If the name given does not contain a slash, pppd
+will look in the /usr/lib/pppd/<version> directory for the file, where
+<version> is the version number of pppd, for example, 2.4.2. I
+suggest that you either give the full path name of the shared object
+file or just the base name; if you don't, it may be possible for
unscrupulous users to substitute another shared object file for the
one you mean to load, e.g. by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.
gcc -c -O xyz.c
gcc -shared -o xyz.so xyz.o
+There are some example plugins in the pppd/plugins directory in the
+ppp distribution. Currently there is one example, minconn.c, which
+implements a `minconnect' option, which specifies a minimum connect
+time before the idle timeout applies.
+
Plugins can access global variables within pppd, so it is useful for
them to #include "pppd.h" from the pppd source directory.
Every plugin must contain a global procedure called `plugin_init'.
This procedure will get called (with no arguments) immediately after
-the plugin is loaded.
+the plugin is loaded. Every plugin should also contain a variable
+called pppd_version declared as follows:
+
+char pppd_version[] = VERSION;
-Plugins can affect the behaviour of pppd in at least three ways:
+If this declaration is included, pppd will not load the module if its
+version number differs from that compiled into the plugin binary.
+
+Plugins can affect the behaviour of pppd in at least four ways:
1. They can add extra options which pppd will then recognize. This is
done by calling the add_options() procedure with a pointer to an
3. Plugin code can call any global procedures and access any global
variables in pppd.
+4. Plugins can register procedures to be called when particular events
+ occur, using the `notifier' mechanism in pppd. The differences
+ between hooks and notifiers are that a hook will only call one
+ function, whereas a notifier can call an arbitrary number, and that
+ a hook usually returns some value to pppd, whereas a notifier
+ function returns nothing.
+
Here is a list of the currently implemented hooks in pppd.
int (*pap_check_hook)(void);
int (*pap_passwd_hook)(char *user, char *passwd);
-int (*pap_auth_hook)(char *user, int userlen,
- char *passwd, int passlen,
- char **msgp, int *msglenp,
+int (*pap_auth_hook)(char *user, char *passwd, char **msgp,
struct wordlist **paddrs,
struct wordlist **popts);
+void (*pap_logout_hook)(void);
These hooks are designed to allow a plugin to replace the normal PAP
password processing in pppd with something different (e.g. contacting
set *popts to a wordlist containing any extra options for this user
which pppd should apply at this point.
+The pap_logout_hook is called when the link is terminated, instead of
+pppd's internal `plogout' function. It can be used for accounting
+purposes. This hook is deprecated and will be replaced by a notifier.
+
+
+int (*chap_check_hook)(void);
+int (*chap_passwd_hook)(char *user, char *passwd);
+int (*chap_verify_hook)(char *name, char *ourname, int id,
+ struct chap_digest_type *digest,
+ unsigned char *challenge, unsigned char *response,
+ char *message, int message_space)
+
+These hooks are designed to allow a plugin to replace the normal CHAP
+password processing in pppd with something different (e.g. contacting
+an external server).
+
+The chap_check_hook is called to check whether there is any possibility
+that the peer could authenticate itself to us. If it returns 1, pppd
+will ask the peer to authenticate itself. If it returns 0, pppd will
+not ask the peer to authenticate itself (but if authentication is
+required, pppd may exit, or terminate the link before network protocol
+negotiation). If it returns -1, pppd will look in the chap-secrets
+file as it would normally.
+
+The chap_passwd_hook is called to determine what password
+pppd should use in authenticating itself to the peer with CHAP. The
+user string will already be initialized, by the `user' option, the
+`name' option, or from the hostname, but can be changed if necessary.
+This hook is called only if pppd is a client, not if it is a server.
+
+MAXSECRETLEN bytes of space are available at *passwd. If this hook
+returns 0, pppd will use the value *passwd; if it returns -1, pppd
+will fail to authenticate.
+
+The chap_verify_hook is called to determine whether the peer's
+response to our CHAP challenge is valid -- it should return 1 if valid
+or 0 if not. The parameters are:
+
+* name points to a null-terminated string containing the username
+ supplied by the peer, or the remote name specified with the
+ "remotename" option.
+* ourname points to a null-terminated string containing the name of
+ the local machine (the hostname, or the name specified with the
+ "name" option).
+* id is the value of the id field from the challenge.
+* digest points to a chap_digest_type struct, which contains an
+ identifier for the type of digest in use plus function pointers for
+ functions for dealing with digests of that type.
+* challenge points to the challenge as a counted string (length byte
+ followed by the actual challenge bytes).
+* response points to the response as a counted string.
+* message points to an area of message_space bytes in which to store
+ any message that should be returned to the peer.
+
+
+int (*null_auth_hook)(struct wordlist **paddrs,
+ struct wordlist **popts);
+
+This hook allows a plugin to determine what the policy should be if
+the peer refuses to authenticate when it is requested to. If the
+return value is 0, the link will be terminated; if it is 1, the
+connection is allowed to proceed, and in this case *paddrs and *popts
+can be set as for pap_auth_hook, to specify what IP addresses are
+permitted and any extra options to be applied. If the return value is
+-1, pppd will look in the pap-secrets file as usual.
+
+
+void (*ip_choose_hook)(u_int32_t *addrp);
+
+This hook is called at the beginning of IPCP negotiation. It gives a
+plugin the opportunity to set the IP address for the peer; the address
+should be stored in *addrp. If nothing is stored in *addrp, pppd will
+determine the peer's address in the usual manner.
+
+
+int (*allowed_address_hook)(u_int32_t addr)
+
+This hook is called to see if a peer is allowed to use the specified
+address. If the hook returns 1, the address is accepted. If it returns
+0, the address is rejected. If it returns -1, the address is verified
+in the normal away against the appropriate options and secrets files.
+
+
+void (*snoop_recv_hook)(unsigned char *p, int len)
+void (*snoop_send_hook)(unsigned char *p, int len)
+
+These hooks are called whenever pppd receives or sends a packet. The
+packet is in p; its length is len. This allows plugins to "snoop in"
+on the pppd conversation. The hooks may prove useful in implmenting
+L2TP.
+
+
+void (*multilink_join_hook)();
+
+This is called whenever a new link completes LCP negotiation and joins
+the bundle, if we are doing multilink.
+
+
+A plugin registers itself with a notifier by declaring a procedure of
+the form:
+
+void my_notify_proc(void *opaque, int arg);
+
+and then registering the procedure with the appropriate notifier with
+a call of the form
+
+ add_notifier(&interesting_notifier, my_notify_proc, opaque);
+
+The `opaque' parameter in the add_notifier call will be passed to
+my_notify_proc every time it is called. The `arg' parameter to
+my_notify_proc depends on the notifier.
+
+A notify procedure can be removed from the list for a notifier with a
+call of the form
+
+ remove_notifier(&interesting_notifier, my_notify_proc, opaque);
+
+Here is a list of the currently-implemented notifiers in pppd.
+
+* pidchange. This notifier is called in the parent when pppd has
+ forked and the child is continuing pppd's processing, i.e. when pppd
+ detaches from its controlling terminal. The argument is the pid of
+ the child.
+
+* phasechange. This is called when pppd moves from one phase of
+ operation to another. The argument is the new phase number.
+
+* exitnotify. This is called just before pppd exits. The argument is
+ the status with which pppd will exit (i.e. the argument to exit()).
+
+* sigreceived. This is called when a signal is received, from within
+ the signal handler. The argument is the signal number.
+
+* ip_up_notifier. This is called when IPCP has come up.
+
+* ip_down_notifier. This is called when IPCP goes down.
+
+* auth_up_notifier. This is called when the peer has successfully
+ authenticated itself.
+
+* link_down_notifier. This is called when the link goes down.
+
+
-## $Id: PLUGINS,v 1.1 1999/09/11 12:09:31 paulus Exp $ ##
+## $Id: PLUGINS,v 1.8 2008/06/15 07:02:18 paulus Exp $ ##
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