pppd login failure

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Hi,

Sebastian Fritsch wrote:
> So everything seems to be right but it fails.

Well, it explicitely says *why* it fails....:

> >Apr 17 14:07:16 linus pppd[2747]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="tocotron" passwor
> >d="xxx"]
> >Apr 17 14:07:16 linus pppd[2747]: PAP authentication failure for tocotron

It doesn't like the PAP secret.

> >Apr 17 14:07:16 linus pppd[2747]: sent [PAP AuthNak id=0x1msg="Login incorrect"]
> >Apr 17 14:07:16 linus pppd[2747]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2]
> >Apr 17 14:07:16 linus pppd[2747]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2]
> >Apr 17 14:07:16 linus pppd[2747]: Connection terminated.
> >Apr 17 14:07:16 linus pppd[2747]: Exit.
> 
> The username and password are the same I typed in my Win95 login
> boxes. 

... which are checked against /etc/passwd, no?

> I changed the password in my linux environment and my
> pap-secrets file looks like that:
> 
> ># Secrets for authentication using PAP
> ># client        server          secret          IP addresses
> >tocotron        10.20.10.1      xxx             10.20.10.3

Put a "*" in the "server" field (afaik, it checks the NAME of the server
here, not its IP address).

gert

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