Well, I found the problem on my own. The O'Reilly book is missing a -t for ssh
to open a pseudo-terminal. That fixed that problem but I'm still having others.
If anybody has setup a vpn I'd love to hear how you did it.
On 11-Oct-99 Jason Bodnar wrote:
> Has anybody set up a VPN using ssh? I've been trying to do it following the
> instructions in the O'Reilly book "Virtual Private Networks" as well as the
> VPN
> mini-howto. I've run into a pppd problem that I can't overcome.
>
> When I do /usr/sbin/pppd on the slave machine I get garbage as expected.
>
> If I do ssh -l vpn hostname /usr/sbin/pppd on the host machine I get:
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd: no device specified and stdin is not a tty
>
> I have a .ppprc file in /home/vpn that contains "passive". I also tried
> adding
> passive as an option when I can pppd but neither works.
>
> Any ideas?
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