On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:09:54PM -0800, Michael & Lisa Lynch wrote:
> I was able to get around this by adding "noauth" to the pppd-options line of
> the diald config file I use when starting up diald. Is this an appropriate
> work around? Am I compromising security somehow? I haven't needed to setup
> a secrets file for straight pppd before.
I don't believe that this is a security compromise. What this means is
that the host to which you are connecting does not need to authenticate
itself to your computer. Since you presumably trust the machine on the
other end of your phone line, I can't see this being a big issue.
Tim
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