Re: Diald auth problem & documentation
The reason that you should not remove the "auth" option in the ppp/options
file is that any and every upgrade will overwrite your changes.
The "proper" location for the "noauth" entry is in the /etc/ppp/peers/
provider (or whatever name you are using for the particular provider
with whom you are trying to establish a ppp connection).
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:24:10PM +0200, Florian 'Papa Flo' Streck wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 12:13:57PM +0200, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
> ...
> > > It does work when I remove "auth" from the /etc/ppp/options file,
> but the man
> > > pages say that I should not do this.
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?
> > >
> ...
> > in /etc/diald there's a config file (don't remember the name). You
> can
> > add a line like:
> >
> > ppp-options noauth
> ...
>
> While this is the Solution to the actual Problem, why does the manpage say
> not to do it? As I remember the manpage says that the "noauth" would lead
> to incompatibilities in future versions of diald. Is this Information
> still correct?
>
> This brings me to another Problem, the Information that Newbies get.
> There are many manpages and other pieces of documentation that contain
> information that is no longer correct. Is there anyone updating the
> documentation? Or this only a Problem with Packages that have no
> maintainer?
>
>
> Florian Streck
> eMail: streck@fs.tum.de
> streck@in.tum.de
>
>
>
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