Bad Username

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
30 Jan 1999 1917:09:13 +0100


Hin cheuk Lam <hilam@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> But in the /var/log/messages, it says something about Bad Username.

Quick question: you did not configure your client (ie the one calling)
to send /AutoPPP/ as username did you ?

The PPP program (e.g. pppd) must be launched by the client as
soon as CONNECT is returned by the modem, else AutoPPP doesn't
work.