Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up
I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break.
And come back to it.
Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below just got
me a 'ppp daemon died unexpectedly' message and the details box said
that noauth is only available to root. removing noauth from the kppp
setup (I edited /etc/ppp/options with 'noauth') gets me a connecting to
network message...but it ain't so! I don't get any error messages but
there is no connection. the browsers just say 'can't find the url'. lynx
however says there is no connection.
When I type pon highstream.net the modem dials up (as it does with kppp
and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the
terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped.
Quoting cr <cr@alti.x-mail.net>:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote:
> > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to
> > > authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't
> > > find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Sep 26
> > > 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: (None of the available passwords would let
> it
> > > use an IP address.)
> > >
> > > I went to kde/kppp site and read there that commenting out the
> > > 'auth' line in /etc/ppp/otions could be a fix but it wasn't. So I
> copied
> > > the /etc/ppp/options file from my SuSE distro but that didn't work
> > > either.
> >
> > Add following line to /etc/ppp/options:
> >
> > noauth
> >
> > So long
> > Thomas
>
> Or alternatively, after bringing up Kppp, go
>
> Setup -> [select account] -> Edit -> Customise pppd -> [type in ] noauth
> ->
> Add
>
> I've just had to do that, half an hour ago, and it works.
>
> (I just did a complete reinstall of Woody, for various reasons).
>
> Curiously though, /etc/ppp/options still has 'auth' in it, while
> /etc/ppp/peers/provider has 'noauth' (and already did, I think, even
> when
> I was having that 'drop-out' problem mentioned above). I don't know how
> the
> two inter-relate, but evidently what I did in Kppp has changed something
> else
> somewhere. I was intending to ask for some clarification on this list.
>
> Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to
ppp?
>
> I can think of a couple of ways that might work but I might as well do it
> the
> 'proper' way. I don't need high security (being the only user) but I'm
> sure
> I shouldn't be posting as root ;)
>
> cr
>
>
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