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vitoreiji

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Registered: 2009-09-04

Posts: 67

Change password on a Microsoft PPTP VPN

Hi,
I have been successfully using pptpclient to connect to a Windows VPN for some time now, but recently my password expired and I get this:

vitor@agilaz:~> sudo pon agila
Password:
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/5
MS-CHAP authentication failed: E=648 Password expired
CHAP authentication failed
Connection terminated.

I know in Windows, at this point you can change this password and then connect normally, but I couldn't find a way to do this in Linux.
All I found about this (after quite a bit o googling) was

There may also be an opportunity to change the password, but this is not well understood here.

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto … connection

Does anyone know how to do this? I don't have any Windows machine here, all the ones that I have access toare in that network