Re: Diald config problems

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Your pppd options are specifying 'auth' which requires the peer to authenticate. You
can edit /etc/diald/diald.options and find (or create) the pppd-options line and add
'noauth', eg.

pppd-options noauth

joe@gracefulweb.com wrote:

> I have tried to figure this one out to no avail.  This time on a new install.
> Diald (pppd) has "peer refused to authenticate" error after logging into server.
> pon works ok.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, and if you need further info ask by direct email
> to joe@gracefulweb.com.
>
> Joe Stewart
>
> Snip!
> May  4 16:38:36 nope kernel: registered device ppp0
> May  4 16:38:37 nope pppd[189]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> May  4 16:38:37 nope pppd[189]: Using interface ppp0
> May  4 16:38:37 nope pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> May  4 16:38:38 nope pppd[189]: peer refused to authenticate
> May  4 16:38:41 nope pppd[189]: Connection terminated.
> May  4 16:38:42 nope pppd[189]: Exit.
> Snip!
>
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com