pppd login failure

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Sebastian,

Get rid of the secrets file, and then mgetty will use your passwd file for 
pap authentication of users.  The secrets file can't exist at all for this to 
work though.

Steve

On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Sebastian Fritsch wrote:

> Sorry, I would like to apologize for my off-topic question again!
> 
> >> ># 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).
> 
> Yes, this was the mistake. I changed it to * now.
> But also at this time I don't know what the setting for server means.
> 
> Is it right that I have to set every(!?!) user in the pap-secrets file
> to give hime ppp access? Is this the argument why you don't like
> PAP-authentification, Gert?
> 
> Sebastian Fritsch
> 
> http://s.fritsch.home.pages.de
>