From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Demetre Valaris" Subject: Re: PAP authentication? Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 18:25:35 +0300 Sender: linux-diald-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D9F2E9F.23489.5A4DA40@localhost> References: <3D9EFF28.703@sympatico.ca> Return-path: In-reply-to: <3D9EFF28.703@sympatico.ca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Frey Cc: linux-diald@vger.kernel.org On 5 Oct 2002 at 11:03, Mark Frey wrote: > Hi Demetre, > > Authentication is done by pppd. > > Check that you have a line in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets with your username > and password for your account on your ISP. It's probably already been > put there if WVDIAL works, though. > > Try adding 'pppd-options user xxxxxxxx' to your diald.conf, or add the > 'user xxxxxxxx' to any existing pppd-options line where xxxxxxxx is your > username on your ISP. This tells pppd which username/password to use > from pap-secrets to authenticate you. > > If that doesn't work, add 'debug' to the pppd-options and look in the > logs for more clues. Check 'man pppd' for the 'user' and 'name' options > - perhaps pppd is picking the wrong entry from pap-secrets or > chap-secrets for some reason. > > Regards, > > Mark VE3DTE > Hi Mark, Your suggestion worked first time!!! Thanks a lot!!! 73 de Demetre SV1UY e-mail sv1uy@sv1uy.ampr.org http://www.athnet.ampr.org/~sv1uy