Well Art don't feel too silly, what you said is essentially correct (except for the chatscript stuff of course).
The ppp protocol does not itself have a 'host/user' concept, it is a peer to peer protocol. In practice there typically are differences when PAP or CHAP are involved but again the difference is in the practice and not in the protocol. 'Hosts', in practice, do not normally authenticate themselves _to_ the dial-in machine. My question would be, if Mr. Whitwell's machine is using PAP, are the entries in the ppp/pap-secrets file correct? AFAIK for the PAP authentication to work (I don't use PAP but have used CHAP), the Username, password, and IP address (or address range) have to match. If the user's machine is also setup to expect PAP authorization then he must also have a second line for that 'secrets pair' or tell the user to disable requiring authorization. On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 11:59:57PM -0500, Art Lemasters wrote: > > Mr. Whitwell just informed me that he is looking for an > answer from the *host* point of view, so one of you old-timers > will need to help him with it...sorry, I should have noticed > the "mgetty" reference. Sheesh, do I feel embarrassed! <:-) > > > /silly/Art > > > > > Dear All, > > > > I've only just joined this list, so I don't know if this has been > > discussed before. I'm using ppp-2.3.3-5 and mgetty-1.1.14-1 to run a > > one-modem dialup. Everything works just fine until pppd goes to verify > > the username/password, which always fails with "PAP authentication > > failure for <username>". I've verified the username/password and they're > > valid. Can someone give me some pointers on where to look next or what > > the problem might be? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some things right! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]