AutoPPP won't work with Win95

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Hi,

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:23:15AM -0500, Robert Canary wrote:
> > > Jun  9 16:53:38 linux1 pppd[609]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="danppp"
> > > password="howton"]
> > > Jun  9 16:53:38 linux1 pppd[609]: PAP authentication failure for danppp
> > > Jun  9 16:53:38 linux1 pppd[609]: sent [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 "Login
> > > incorrect"]
> >
> > This is pretty clear: with this user name and password combination, pppd
> > doesn't accept the call.  If you're using /etc/passwd, make sure you don't
> > have a "pap-secrets" file somewhere (and, in your case, make sure that
> 
> aaaaaaa,  not so sure about that one Gert,  my dialin server uses pppd +pap -chap
> and it authenticates through pam/shadow via a pap-secrets file.

Well, then it's your beer to find out why your pppd server doesn't like
this user name and password combination.  It's certainly not a mgetty
problem... :-)

[..]
> Here is what I use in the /etc/ppp/options.ttyCx files:
> auth
> -chap  <-- don't do chap
> +pap   <-- do pap
> login   <-- authorization of pam through the login

Usually "login" means "look in /etc/passwd", not "PAM", but that might be
different in your distribution - in any case, this is not the right list
to get that question answered, we don't know how *your* pppd is compiled.

gert
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