On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, DS wrote:
> I don't know if this is related to Linuxconf but I'm seeing this on a RH
> 5.1 box and it seems to be related to Samba access:
>
> Feb 9 10:43:59 oradev PAM_pwdb[6703]: get passwd; pwdb: structure is no
> longer valid
No idea about this one
> As for ppp dialout, I had dialout working on a few machines using
> Linuxconf but on one box I get a "serial line is looped back" error.
> Using something like kppp in X works fine.
"Serial line is looped back" generally mean that the chat failed (wrong
password for example) and you are back to the login: prompt. The problem
is that most chat are implement this way
expect ogin:
send user id
expect word:
send password
What happen if the password is wrong (because your account has expired for
example). You are back to the login: prompt. But as far as chat is
concerned, it has succeeded, so pppd is allowed to continue and expects to
talk with another pppd engine on the other side. But it is talking to a
login prompt with echo on. Everything send by pppd is echo back, thus the
report "serial line is loop back". To avoid this confusion, one can add an
"Expected welcome" token in linuxconf. This means that the chat has now
one more step, where it wait for the welcome. This is often the word ppp,
but one has to check by manually log in to the ISP using something like
minicom. This way, you get a better report, that the chat failed.
Anyway, check out your chat. There is probably a typo there.
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