Ernst Kloppenburg writes: > Hello, > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:18:20 +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote: >> Ernst Kloppenburg writes: >> >> > Package: kppp Version: 4:3.1.5-1 Severity: normal Followup-For: >> > Bug #126406 >> >> > as the original bug reporter says, >> > /usr/share/doc/kppp/README.Debian gives the very questionable >> > advice to set "noauth" in /etc/ppp/options >> >> Are you sure that you know what this option does ? It does not >> mean that all users are allowed to change ppp settings. It means >> that the ppp client does not try to check the authentication of the >> ppp server of your ISP. Quite a lot of ISPs have broken >> authentication configs on their servers, because windows clients >> never check them anyway.
> I think I clearly understand the noauth option: > - if noauth is given, your pppd does not require the ppp server of the > ISP to authenticate (which would not be possible) > - there is a second case, where noauth applies: when somebody dials > into your machine (which may be wanted or not). > It is for this second case, that putting 'noauth' into the options > file is not recommended. > Therefore, normally all provider configurations in /etc/ppp/peers do > contain 'noauth'. > Putting noauth into the kppp configuration normally is not possible, > because noauth is a privileged option. This is solved by 'privgroup > dip'. Oh, I see. Then shouldn't this bug be reassigned to the ppp package ? cheers domi
