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'

peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-22 Thread moron
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 things right? David