The reason that you should not remove the "auth" option in the ppp/options file is that any and every upgrade will overwrite your changes.
The "proper" location for the "noauth" entry is in the /etc/ppp/peers/ provider (or whatever name you are using for the particular provider with whom you are trying to establish a ppp connection). On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:24:10PM +0200, Florian 'Papa Flo' Streck wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 12:13:57PM +0200, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > ... > > > It does work when I remove "auth" from the /etc/ppp/options file, > but the man > > > pages say that I should not do this. > > > > > > Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? > > > > ... > > in /etc/diald there's a config file (don't remember the name). You > can > > add a line like: > > > > ppp-options noauth > ... > > While this is the Solution to the actual Problem, why does the manpage say > not to do it? As I remember the manpage says that the "noauth" would lead > to incompatibilities in future versions of diald. Is this Information > still correct? > > This brings me to another Problem, the Information that Newbies get. > There are many manpages and other pieces of documentation that contain > information that is no longer correct. Is there anyone updating the > documentation? Or this only a Problem with Packages that have no > maintainer? > > > Florian Streck > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
