On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Chris Stalker-Herron wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 4:56 PM
> > To: Chris Stalker-Herron
> > Cc: Debian User List
> > Subject: Re: ISP username for diald
> >
> >
> > Chris Stalker-Herron writes:
> > > When trying to connect through diald, I am seeing "PAP authentication
> > > failed" in my ppp.log. I think it's because diald does not know what
> > > user to pass to pppd.
> >
> > No. It is because pppd is not being called with the 'noauth' option, and
> > so is demanding that the ISP authenticate to it. Add this to
> > /etc/diald/diald.options:
> >
> > pppd-options noauth
>
> Actually, I already have that line. Here is the ppp.log showing it being
> used.
>
> Dec 5 13:19:37 piglet diald[295]: Running pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd -detach
> modem crtscts mtu 1500 mru 1500 netmask 255.255.255.0 noauth
>
> Don't I have to somehow pass a username and password to the ISP? I doubt
> they would let me connect without one.
Maybe this will help - from the ppd man page. set it in /etc/ppp/peers/<file>
user name
Sets the name used for authenticating the local
system to the peer to name.
Cheers.
--
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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