>From /etc/ppp/options:
# Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network
# packets to be sent or received.
# Please do not disable this setting. It is expected to be standard in
# future releases of pppd. Use the call option (see manpage) to disable
# authentication for specific peers.
auth
I have not run a Red Hat system for well over a year now but I suspect that
this consideration applies to RPM as well as Debian's dselect/apt package
system... If you make changes to ppp/options these changes will be lost
whenever you do an upgrade because you are not supposed to alter the
ppp/options files. In this specific case the "auth" is set on as the default
for security reasons and is expected to be disabled when needed by the
program that envokes ppp (such as diald, chat, dip, or whatever).
So for diald for most users the proper place to disable the demanding of
authentication by the peer is in the diald configuration file (diald.options
or diald.config depending upon version).
This can be a particularly important thing to consider if you think that
you ever might want to set up your machine so that you can dial-in from
a laptop, friends house, or similar. If you disable authorization in the
ppp/options file then you have "blanket removed" an important security
protection for your machine.
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:08:52PM +0200, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:48:20 +0100, hai scritto:
>
> >Oct 9 18:43:03 abyss pppd[2536]: peer refused to authenticate: terminating link
> >Oct 9 18:43:06 abyss pppd[2536]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> >Oct 9 18:43:06 abyss pppd[2536]: Modem hangup
>
> You can't ask your isp to authenticate itself, because it won't do it.
> Look into /etc/ppp/options, ppp-on for some pppd options requiring your
> isp to auth (require-pap...) and comment it out.
>
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