On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:22:02 +0100, Rhialto wrote: > Radius is an authentication server.
Right, and it's a MS Windows thing, of some sort. Probably it manages passwords, or something similar. (I know almost nothing about MS Windows.) So a Radius server might be invoked by some MS Windows-oriented software if there is some reason to think you need to cough up a password, but something went wrong when Radius was asked for your password. Why would you need a password? Neither of the News servers I use require passwords. Well, maybe you offered a password when you (not you personally, actually, Pan) tried to open a connection with your News server. So I suggest you look at what you told Pan about this News server to make sure you didn't supply some info (like a password) which would lead Pan to think it ought to engage in an authentication dialogue (unless, of course, it ought to). Maybe there are some stray characters that somehow got into a field that Pan thinks is a password, for instance. What could have gone wrong when Radius was asked to supply a password for you? The most obvious thing is that you have no Radius server at all. That would lead to an error. I think Radius servers are things you expect to find on local networks, so there is a good possibility that this mistaken invocation of Radius is a local problem and has nothing to do with Earthlink. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
