A few days ago, I was asking how to spawn a PPPD process if someone appended a "$" to their user name. Well, now I am pursuing the mgetty option using /AutoPPP/ detect. This automatically starts pppd and then you must do user authentication through pppd. Since I am doing this for some Windows-95 users to log in, I am limited to PAP. And I want to use the "login" option, so their username/password information come from the NIS/YP database and I don't have to open new accounts for them. The problem, I can establish a PPP connection from a Win-95 box to my Linux machine (i386 RedHat 5.0 with all updates) if (a) I don't require authentication or (b) if I pull up a terminal window when Win-95 establishes a connection and manually log into an account that starts pppd. So, I can get the two computers to talk. But, when I do the automagic mgetty thing and try PAP/login, I can't get anything to authenticate. I've put the thing into debug mode, and I see my username and password coming through clearly, but PAP authentication fails. Any suggestions? If anyone has done this type of Win-95 to Linux connection, I'd really appreciate hearing from you. Heres some of the debug syslog: pppd[978]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 pppd[978]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <auth pap> <magic 0xffff1484> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[978]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <auth pap> <magic 0xffff1484> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[978]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <magic 0x2a787d> <pcomp> <accomp> <callback 0x600>] pppd[978]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <callback 0x623>] pppd[978]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <magic 0x2a787d> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[978]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <magic 0x2a787d> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[978]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xffff1484] pppd[978]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="myuser" password="mypassword"] pppd[978]: PAP authentication failure for myuser pppd[978]: sent [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 "Login incorrect"] pppd[978]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Authentication failed"] "myuser" is a valid account in the local machines /etc/passwd (not even making it go through YP yet) and "mypassword" is logged as the unencrypted password (obviously encrypted in /etc/passwd). I am specifying "login" as a pppd option, and have uncommented the appropriate line in the sample pap-secrets file. Thanks, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.