Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Martin writes: > How about +pap or +chap in /etc/ppp/options or > /etc/ppp/peers/provider? Will the noauth nullify this as well? Pppd obeys whichever of auth, noauth, +pap, and +chap it sees last. +pap and +chap are no longer mentioned in the man page but still appear to work -- John Hasler

Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-23 Thread moron
Martin Bialasinski writes: >JH>moron writes: >>> You're right. It is. I'll have to keep experimenting, I think > >JH> But the absence of noauth (and the presence of auth in >JH> /etc/ppp/options) is pretty much the only thing that can cause >JH> that error. Could you send copies of /etc/ppp/peer

Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> Jardine writes: >> You're right. It is. I'll have to keep experimenting, I think JH> But the absence of noauth (and the presence of auth in JH> /etc/ppp/options) is pretty much the only thing that can cause JH> that error. Could you send c

Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Jardine writes: > You're right. It is. I'll have to keep experimenting, I think But the absence of noauth (and the presence of auth in /etc/ppp/options) is pretty much the only thing that can cause that error. Could you send copies of /etc/ppp/peers/provider and relevant parts of /var/log/ppp.lo

Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-23 Thread moron
You're right. It is. I'll have to keep experimenting, I think >thomas writes: >> you need a line with the word 'noauth' in your /etc/ppp/peers/provider >> file. > >Yes. That line would already be there had he used pppconfig to set up ppp. >-- >John HaslerThis posting is in the p

Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-22 Thread John Hasler
thomas writes: > you need a line with the word 'noauth' in your /etc/ppp/peers/provider > file. Yes. That line would already be there had he used pppconfig to set up ppp. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you wi

Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-22 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 22 May 1999, moron wrote: > I'm trying for the fiftieth time to set up an internet connection for the > first time. Could someone tell me if the message "peer refuses to > authenticate" signifies something specific and easily correctable or just > that I'm still a long way from getting th