On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > > authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't > > find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Sep 26 > > 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: (None of the available passwords would let it > > use an IP address.) > > > > I went to kde/kppp site and read there that commenting out the > > 'auth' line in /etc/ppp/otions could be a fix but it wasn't. So I copied > > the /etc/ppp/options file from my SuSE distro but that didn't work > > either. > > Add following line to /etc/ppp/options: > > noauth > > So long > Thomas
Or alternatively, after bringing up Kppp, go Setup -> [select account] -> Edit -> Customise pppd -> [type in ] noauth -> Add I've just had to do that, half an hour ago, and it works. (I just did a complete reinstall of Woody, for various reasons). Curiously though, /etc/ppp/options still has 'auth' in it, while /etc/ppp/peers/provider has 'noauth' (and already did, I think, even when I was having that 'drop-out' problem mentioned above). I don't know how the two inter-relate, but evidently what I did in Kppp has changed something else somewhere. I was intending to ask for some clarification on this list. Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to ppp? I can think of a couple of ways that might work but I might as well do it the 'proper' way. I don't need high security (being the only user) but I'm sure I shouldn't be posting as root ;) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]