Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more

To: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more
From: john@dhh.gt.org
Date: 27 Aug 1998 13:55:15 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87pvdm9rvw.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq."'s message of Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:47:13 -0500
References: <[🔎] m0zBvpy-000sfpC@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>

Richard E. Hawkins writes:
> The loginid and password are correct; they're the same ones it uses to
> login.

Are they the ones in the secrets file?

> what can possibly be going wrong here?

PAP authentication is failing.  Why are you using it?  You're already
authenticating.  Why not just use 'noauth' at both ends and be
happy, at least until you get a connection up?

> and why is the password nakedly displayed like that in the log?

Because pppd is buggy.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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