pppd/auth: Pass ipparam to auth-up and auth-down scripts

ipparam is the only way a system administrator has of passing arbitrary
information from options files to scripts, and this may be useful during
auth-up in particular.  (If upstream pppd had support for an auth-fail
script, it could be useful there too.)

Signed-off-by: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

diff --git a/pppd/auth.c b/pppd/auth.c
index 01ece576ba2a7b5c57fffda29b4fb380d8b23e9a..fa32fea781362687c767442501afbdd7a6706c8c 100644 (file)
--- a/pppd/auth.c
+++ b/pppd/auth.c
@@ -2407,7 +2407,8 @@ auth_script(char *script)
     argv[3] = user_name;
     argv[4] = devnam;
     argv[5] = strspeed;
-    argv[6] = NULL;
+    argv[6] = ipparam;
+    argv[7] = NULL;
 
     auth_script_pid = run_program(script, argv, 0, auth_script_done, NULL, 0);
 }

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 60932c2f6c81faeeb34306a4dbb6ada52e3ddd01..79b5bea5c4a3fdf3220dfb158cfec8b5ad7051df 100644 (file)
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -524,7 +524,8 @@ Set the IPCP restart interval (retransmission timeout) to \fIn\fR
 seconds (default 3).
 .TP
 .B ipparam \fIstring
-Provides an extra parameter to the ip\-up, ip\-pre\-up and ip\-down
+Provides an extra parameter most of the notification scripts, most notably
+ip\-up, ip\-pre\-up, ip\-down, ipv6\-up, ipv6\-down, auth\-up and auth\-down
 scripts.  If this
 option is given, the \fIstring\fR supplied is given as the 6th
 parameter to those scripts.
@@ -1821,7 +1822,7 @@ if they don't exist.
 A program or script which is executed after the remote system
 successfully authenticates itself.  It is executed with the parameters
 .IP
-\fIinterface\-name peer\-name user\-name tty\-device speed\fR
+\fIinterface\-name peer\-name user\-name tty\-device speed ipparam\fR
 .IP
 Note that this script is not executed if the peer doesn't authenticate
 itself, for example when the \fInoauth\fR option is used.