PPTP VPN Server

[Manni Mueller]

Hello folks,

I started a PPTP VPN Server on my Debian Sarge Server with Webmin 1.470. When I go to "Active Connections" I can not see the Username of connected Users. There is always written "Unknown".....
Is ist possible to change this?

Additionally I would like to log how many traffic every User used. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

[Jorge Moises]

I read this:

PPTP VPN Server
Usernames for active connections are now show, if logged in /var/log/messages.

But i dont know how to do that

[Jorge Moises]

Did somebody know how to fix this? thanks

[Sandro Santos]

I'm having this same problem in autal version in ubuntu. And how could not find a solution, I created my own.

In my case, I changed the file "pptp-server-lib.pl" in webmin folder, under "sub list_connections":

from: if (/pppd\[(\d+)\].*authentication\s+succeeded\s+for\s+(\S+)/i) {
to: if (/pppd\[(\d+)\].*logwtmp\.so\s+ip-up\s+ppp\d+\s+(\S+)/i) {

obs:. The line in the log (/var/log/syslog) is different from expected.

from: Local ($iface) = grep { $_->{'address'} eq $lip && $_->{'ptp'} eq $rip } @ifaces;
to: Local ($iface) = grep { $_->{'address'} eq $lip && $_->{'ptp'} eq $rip2 } @ifaces;

obs:. because "$_->{'ptp'}" don't returns the external IP of the remote client.