Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up+
I forgot to add, sorry, that I tried all of this i.e. pon, wvdial , kppp
logged in as root with identical results. Thanks.
Quoting J Y <jhy@x-mail.net>:
> 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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