Dialing into Linux with AutoPPP authetication

Len Ovens (len@cbbs.org)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:32:10 -0700


Guilherme Isaac Schreiber Litwinski wrote:
> 
> Gert Doering wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:18:03PM -0300, Guilherme Isaac Schreiber Litwinski wrote:
> > > Apr  9 16:10:38 adler pppd[450]: PAP authentication failure for marcelo
> >
> > Well, there's the problem.  The caller is doing PAP and not sending the
> > password that your side is expecting.

> This problem is happening but I'm typing the password correctly. I've tried other users
> but the message is the same. This users are in the "passwd" file. When I login manually
> it works. My pap-secrets file is like this:
> 
> * * ""

I found I had to run with no pap-secrects file with autoppp. It just
uses your passwd file. Don't know what happens with shadow though... 

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Len Ovens
len@studio.cbbs.org