slrnpull failure
Hi,
I have a problem with slrnpull or to be more precise with its connection
to ISP. I read file /slrn/slrnpull/QUICK_INSTALL and did all as it is
written there. So I run my /etc/ppp/ppp-on script to connect to ISP
(everything goes well as usualy) and when it's done I run slrnpull.
But all I get is this:
/usr/sbin/pppd: By default the remote system is required to authentificate
itself (because this system has a default route to the internet) but I
couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so.
(None of the available passwords let it use an IP address).
But this is only a half of my story (the second half). Because firstly
I changed two lines in that slrnpull file. In this file there is
a short script that (as its author says) does: 1. ... ,
2. Starts up ppp via a ppp-on script (not provided),
3. Runs slrnpull to grap articles from the server, 4 .... .
And the script that is to do all this job looks as below:
if /usr/sbin/ppp-on; then
$slrnpull -d $dir -h server
/usr/sbin/ppp-off
else
exit 1
fi
Because I don't have anything like /usr/sbin/ppp-on(off) on my RedHat6.2
I changed this to /etc/ppp/ppp-on(off) (these two scripts I use to
connect/disconnect to the internet). And the score you already know.
What did I wrong and what am I to change to run slrnpull without any
problems? And BTW I set an uid bit to my pppd to be able to run it as
common user. But now I know that this not too good solution and also
I know that there are some better ways to do it. Could you tell how
can I do it to run pppd as secure as possible and without any
authentification problems.
Thank you for hepl in advance,
QBA
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