Thanks to everyone for the responses - most helpful
James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lourdes Jones [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 2:52 PM
> To: 'Haworth-Wood, James'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: diald & pap-authentication
>
> > I have a problem with running diald 1.xx on Redhat 6.2 :
>
> As far as I know 0.99.4 is the most recent version. Did you perhaps mean
> diald 0.16.x?
>
> [snip]
>
> > When I trigger the diald dial-up the pppd seems to handle it
> > ok and the
> > modem dials and just as authentication takes place I get the following
> > errors in the log :
> >
> > Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate pppd[2658]: The remote system
> > (lnx-pppdemon) is
> > required to authenticate itself but I
> > Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate pppd[2658]: couldn't find any suitable secret
> > (password) for it to use to do so.
>
> you need to pass the 'noauth' option to pppd. It's covered in the pppd
> man
> page in the section under authentication.
>
> using 'pppd-options noauth' in /etc/diald.conf would be fine.
>
> > Now if I remove the default route set up by diald while it's
> > re-dialling the
> > next attempt to connect is successful. Can anyone help ??
>
> Precisely. Authorization is now required in pppd 2.3.9+ IF there is an
> existing default route at the time pppd starts unless the 'noauth' option
> has been set. So set the 'noauth' option and pppd will be happy to
> proceed
> normally without asking your ISP to log into your machine.
>
> Lourdes
>
>
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