From: Matthew Percival <matthew@capgo.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot to perform a null login?
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:34:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138772059.8869.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138770376.8869.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
G'Day,
> Why would you want to do this? It is not at all clear that anything can
> understand a null login name. Why do you think you need to send a null
> username
Apparently that is what is required for the server I am connecting to.
You would need to ask the provider for why or how: I am just trying to
do what I have been told.
> You might have a line
>
> '' GSM ''
> in /etc/pap-secrets and have
> user ''
> as an option for pppd.
I just tried that, but it still defaulted to my local name.
From /var/log/syslog:
Feb 1 16:28:29 localhost pppd[15869]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1
user="matthew" password=<hidden>]
-- Matthew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-01 5:06 Hot to perform a null login? Matthew Percival
2006-02-01 5:16 ` Bill Unruh
2006-02-01 5:34 ` Matthew Percival [this message]
2006-02-01 6:00 ` Bill Unruh
2006-02-01 6:12 ` James Cameron
2006-02-01 11:40 ` James Carlson
2006-02-01 11:45 ` James Cameron
2006-02-01 22:09 ` Matthew Percival
2006-02-01 22:26 ` Bill Unruh
2006-02-01 22:29 ` Bill Unruh
2006-02-01 22:40 ` James Carlson
2006-02-01 23:03 ` Matthew Percival
2006-02-01 23:03 ` James Cameron
2006-02-01 23:13 ` James Cameron
2006-02-02 3:33 ` Matthew Percival
2006-02-02 6:38 ` Pieter Loubser
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