On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 02:36:39PM +0200, Lorenzo Lazzeri wrote: > > Hello, > > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > When I dialup to my Linux box, it keeps reporting authentication failures > > even though the password is correct.. Here is the ppp.log file (debug 9) > > I think your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets should have chmod 600 and root.root > owner. > > Furthermore, if you're authenticating your users via login option you > should have this line > > * * "" * > > REMEMBER to add the last asterisk, they should be FOUR entries. Dunno why, > but it seems that ppp-2.3.3 wants all the four fields, while ppp-2.2.0 did > work also with just the first three.
I don't know why everyone else needs this. I'm using AutoPPP. I don't want everyone on my system to have ppp, and this is my conffile: [snip] # INBOUND connections # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd #* mystic "" user1 * "" * user2 * "" * user3 * "" * user4 * "" * user5 * "" * # UserIDs that cannot use PPP at all. Check your /etc/passwd and add any # other accounts that should not be able to use pppd! #guest mystic "*" - #master mystic "*" - #root mystic "*" - #support mystic "*" - #stats mystic "*" - [snip] Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
