On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 07:20, Craig Main wrote: > Hi All, > > I need a bit of help here, I am trying to get kppp to work with a normal > user. The user is a member of dialup and dip. Every time the user dials > up I get the following output to the console (I started kppp from > command line): > > craig@craig:/usr/share/doc/kppp$ kppp > Opener: received SetSecret > Opener: received OpenLock > > Opener: received OpenDevice > Opener: received ExecPPPDaemon > In parent: pppd pid 2040 > Kernel supports ppp alright. > Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device > Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device > It was pppd that died > pppd exited with return value 19 > Sending 2036 a SIGUSR1 > Opener: received RemoveSecret > Opener: received RemoveSecret > Opener: received OpenResolv > Opener: received OpenResolv > error opening resolv.conf! > Opener: received RemoveLock > Opener: received PPPDExitStatus > Opener: received OpenSysLog > > According to man pppd, exit code 19 is failure to authenticate to peer. > I have checked the username and passwords and they are correct. > > If I run kppp as root with the same settings, it dials up fine without > problems. > > I am convinced it has something to do with permissions, but don't know > what more to check. I'm running sid & KDE3. > > TIA > > Craig I think it has to do with the 'auth' option in the /etc/ppp/options file.You can test by changing the line to 'noauth'. # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network # packets to be sent or received. # Please do not disable this setting. It is expected to be standard in # future releases of pppd. Use the call option (see manpage) to disable # authentication for specific peers. auth -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux
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