Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:27:26PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 10:50:09PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > login Use the system password database for authenticating
> > the peer using PAP, and record the user in the sys-
> > tem wtmp file. Note that the peer must have an
> > entry in the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file as well as
> > the system password database to be allowed access.
>
> Thanks, but we're well beyond that point. Something is going wrong
> with the PAP authentication.
I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was
to add the following to pap-secrets:
# magic fix
* * "" *
Someone on one of the linux mailing lists suggested it; it seems to be
otherwise undocumented, although certainly not unimportant.
Shadow passwords may also make a difference. I'm not using them here;
I think last time I tried them (on ppp 2.2) I couldn't login with PAP
any more either.
Hamish
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