Hi, I have a problem with slrnpull or to be more precise with its connection to ISP. I read file /slrn/slrnpull/QUICK_INSTALL and did all as it is written there. So I run my /etc/ppp/ppp-on script to connect to ISP (everything goes well as usualy) and when it's done I run slrnpull. But all I get is this: /usr/sbin/pppd: By default the remote system is required to authentificate itself (because this system has a default route to the internet) but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords let it use an IP address). But this is only a half of my story (the second half). Because firstly I changed two lines in that slrnpull file. In this file there is a short script that (as its author says) does: 1. ... , 2. Starts up ppp via a ppp-on script (not provided), 3. Runs slrnpull to grap articles from the server, 4 .... . And the script that is to do all this job looks as below: if /usr/sbin/ppp-on; then $slrnpull -d $dir -h server /usr/sbin/ppp-off else exit 1 fi Because I don't have anything like /usr/sbin/ppp-on(off) on my RedHat6.2 I changed this to /etc/ppp/ppp-on(off) (these two scripts I use to connect/disconnect to the internet). And the score you already know. What did I wrong and what am I to change to run slrnpull without any problems? And BTW I set an uid bit to my pppd to be able to run it as common user. But now I know that this not too good solution and also I know that there are some better ways to do it. Could you tell how can I do it to run pppd as secure as possible and without any authentification problems. Thank you for hepl in advance,
QBA
