Re: ppp2.3.1

[Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de]

The preferred way is to add "noauth" to the options to
/etc/ppp/peer/provider.

Thank you,
Marcus

(It took me a while, too. This should be mentioned in the readme).


On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:

> OK, the latest package updates pretty seamlessly. nice work. :)
> 
> the only question i have is, the first time i tried to log on, i got this
> error:
> 
> Oct 30 01:27:49 mattyt pppd[1546]: peer refused to authenticate
> Oct 30 01:27:49 mattyt pppd[1546]: Connection terminated.
> Oct 30 01:27:49 mattyt pppd[1546]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> 
> ...so i commented this out in /etc/ppp/options:
> 
> # 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
> 
> ...even tho it said not to.  my question is, what problems will having
> commented this out cause for me, if any?
> 
> anything else i should be aware of?
> 
> thanks,
> matty
> 
> 
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