From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Percival Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:34:19 +0000 Subject: Re: Hot to perform a null login? Message-Id: <1138772059.8869.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1138770376.8869.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1138770376.8869.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org 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=] -- Matthew