Michael,
The requirement to use 'noauth' is a result of a change made to the most recent
versions of the pppd package. It used to default to not requiring authentication of
the remote system - the opposite of what it does now!
If your ISP does not use PAP/CHAP then you have no need for 'secrets' files.
Iain Stevenson
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000, 4:09:54 am GMT Michael & Lisa Lynch wrote:
>I'm sure this same question has been repeted many times, but I'm new to
>Linux and diald - and I can't get to the archives at
>ftp://rex.isdn.net/pub/diald (doesn't seem to like anonymous logins)
>
>I currently have one question that I am hoping someone can help me with. (to
>begin with)
>
>First the question -
>I was getting the following message in on of the log files whenever diald
>attempted to attach to the host:
>Jan 10 22:38:42 huey pppd[406]: The remote system is required to
>authenticate itself but I
>Jan 10 22:38:42 huey pppd[406]: couldn't find any suitable secret (password)
>for it to use to do so.
>
>I was able to get around this by adding "noauth" to the pppd-options line of
>the diald config file I use when starting up diald. Is this an appropriate
>work around? Am I compromising security somehow? I haven't needed to setup
>a secrets file for straight pppd before.
>
>I appreciate the help.
>
>- Michael Lynch
>
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