Description: This object is used to specify whether to use Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) authentication method and the order it is used.

This object is one of multiple objects used to specify authentication methods. The other authentication method objects are cdslVTPppAuthChap and cdslVTPppAuthMSChap.

A non-zero value for any of these authentication method objects indicates that its associated authentication method is to be employed. The value of these objects indicates the order in which their respective methods should be applied to the process of authenticating users.

The lowest non-zero valued authentication method object is used first. If it fails, the second lowest is applied. If all methods fail, the user is rejected.

If multiple objects are set to the same value, then the order of the corresponding methods will be adjusted in the order of CHAP, MSCHAP and PAP.

Each time one of these auth method value is set, all the auth method object values will be re-assigned to reflect the order change and the values will be in an incremental order started from one.

So the return value(s) of a snmpget request for these objects may be different from what they are set. However the order is preserved.