Hello,
I just encountered this as well. On a system that uses Linuconf such as Redhat, all that
seems to be necessary is 1) to select 'use PAP' in the PPP configuration dialog putting your name
and password in the space provided --it will write these to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file.
2) Know exactly how your ISP tries to invoke PAP when you connect. Often
on a MS based network it's the string User Access Verification
Examine your /var/log/messages for the first such string from
your ISP. It is also possible to watch these messages passing back
and forth between your ISP
and PC in WIndows if you select "bring up terminal window in --I think--
Dialup networking edit
properties ->my connection or possibly the modem properties.
3) Place whatever this string happens to be into the /etc/diald/connect
script in the line
USER_CHAT_SEQUENCE="login:--login:--" Don't repeat it the way the script
repeats login:
4) As noted in /etc/diald/connect do not put your password or username in the string for USER_NAME just empty doublequotes ""
5) Comment out line in which you would have given the password. (Maybe this isn't actually necessary)
This seems to be working well with diald 0.99-1 and my ISP. I am using config scripts installed by a 0.16.5a-1 diald-config rpm on RH6.0, diald 0.99-1 locally compiled and linuxconf 1.16r1.3 . Hope this is helpful.
Ed Weinberg wrote:
There is one reference to PAP in the file "connect". I am trying to
hook a system up to Prodigy who (I think) uses PAP. Can anyone point
me to documentation or tell me if I need a pap-secret file and what
goes in it?-- Ed Weinberg,
Detel, Inc., An Internet Presence Provider
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