Win9x connecting via PPP to a winbox, "Cannot authenticate"

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:24:32 +0200

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Hi,

On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 05:24:13PM +0000, Mista Fixit wrote:
> When I log in with the winbox, it argues that the password is wrong. I
> know the reason is because of the leading hostname(the linuxboxs
> hostname) in front of the login prompt "login:".

No, it's not.

> The problem is, how can I remove the hostname from the login prompt??

You can do that by specifying a prompt with "mgetty -p login:" (for
example), but that's completely irrelevant to AutoPPP operations.

gert
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