Re: pppd daemon dies
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:11, cr wrote:
> 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.
Just to correct myself - that *only* works if you're Root. (Even though I
first saw it suggested on some website!)
cr
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