Re: PPP: PAP Problems

[Kevin Traas]

> Peter> Another question is: There are more then one number to
> Peter> dial to my ISP. So same resolv.conf but different chat
> Peter> scripts. Would you solve this using a shell based dialer
> Peter> script to dial in or are there security risks?
> 
> Ben> Why not just make a copy of /usr/bin/pon, maybe call it
> Ben> /usr/local/bin/pon-2, and edit it to use a different ppp.chatscript?
> 
> Well, this would work, but what I'd like to have is to have pppd dial the
> second number if the first is busy.

As a suggestion, take a look at the DialD connect script. 
(/etc/diald/connect).

It is configured to use multiple numbers.  It will "roll-over" to another
number if the current one fails for any reason.  I've used this feature and
it works well.

It would probably be pretty easy to adapt the code from this script to work
with pon and solve your problem

Later,

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Re: PPP: PAP Problems

[Peter Weiss]

> On 28 Jul 1997 09:40:47 -0500, Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> "Peter" == Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Hello out there, trying to set up PPP I run in the
Peter> following problem: Chat dials, connection is
Peter> established. But the authentification fails.

Peter> My ISP-sysop says it tries to connect using CHAP,
Peter> though only PAP is available. So where to tell pppd to use
Peter> PAP? I put comments around +pap and +chap lines in the
Peter> options file which is meant to be used for a ppp server
Peter> setup.

Ben> Add 'user peter' (or whatever your username is) to the end of
Ben> /etc/ppp.options_out. 

Yes, I did that. Now it accesses the pap-secret files, after adding the "+ua
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets" option in ppp.options_out as well.

Ben> I'm pretty sure this is in the /usr/doc/ppp/README. 

The docs are really confusing and not telling the truth. For example: The
syntax of my pap secrets is  , each on a seperate line! I
found this from the log file where pppd reported using the whole line as my
user name.

Peter> Another question is: There are more then one number to
Peter> dial to my ISP. So same resolv.conf but different chat
Peter> scripts. Would you solve this using a shell based dialer
Peter> script to dial in or are there security risks?

Ben> Why not just make a copy of /usr/bin/pon, maybe call it
Ben> /usr/local/bin/pon-2, and edit it to use a different ppp.chatscript?

Well, this would work, but what I'd like to have is to have pppd dial the
second number if the first is busy.

 Peter

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Re: PPP: PAP Problems

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Peter Weiss wrote:
> 
> Hello out there,
> 
> trying to set up PPP I run in the following problem: Chat dials,
> connection is established. But the authentification fails.
> 
> My ISP-sysop says it tries to connect using CHAP, though only PAP is
> available. So where to tell pppd to use PAP? I put comments around +pap
> and +chap lines in the options file which is meant to be used for a ppp
> server setup.
> 
> Another question is: There are more then one number to dial to my ISP. So
> same resolv.conf but different chat scripts. Would you solve this using a
> shell based dialer script to dial in or are there security risks?
> 

For pap you need two things. First, pppd needs to know what the "user 
name" is for the account your trying to connect as. By default I 
think pppd will use `hostname`. This is set by passing "user "
on the pppd command line. Second, you'll need an entry in 
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets which contains:

  

You may use "*" for . Thus, if my ppp account with my ISP
has an account name of "daffy" and the password is "duck" I run
pppd as:

pppd connect /some/bin/connect-script user daffy 1.2.3.4:

and in my /etc/ppp/pap-secrets I have the line:

daffy * duck

If you do all this and it still doesn't work. Come on back, but before
you do, run pppd with "debug" on the command line and give us the
output you find in /var/log/ppp.log please.

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Re: PPP: PAP Problems

[Ben Gertzfield]

> "Peter" == Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Peter> Hello out there, trying to set up PPP I run in the
Peter> following problem: Chat dials, connection is
Peter> established. But the authentification fails.

Peter> My ISP-sysop says it tries to connect using CHAP,
Peter> though only PAP is available. So where to tell pppd to use
Peter> PAP? I put comments around +pap and +chap lines in the
Peter> options file which is meant to be used for a ppp server
Peter> setup.

Add 'user peter' (or whatever your username is) to the end of
/etc/ppp.options_out. 

I'm pretty sure this is in the /usr/doc/ppp/README. 

Peter> Another question is: There are more then one number to
Peter> dial to my ISP. So same resolv.conf but different chat
Peter> scripts. Would you solve this using a shell based dialer
Peter> script to dial in or are there security risks?

Why not just make a copy of /usr/bin/pon, maybe call it
/usr/local/bin/pon-2, and edit it to use a different ppp.chatscript?

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