> Geof Goodrum wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Crease wrote:
> >
> > > Why does this happen? Can you configure ppp to request pap and
> at
> > > the same time reject peer pap authentication?
> > >
> > > ISPs i've used before request to authenticate user none password
> none.
> > ...
> > > Interestingly enough, when I use +pap my ISP (or is it me) fails
> to negotiate pap correctly, but if I remove +pap it authenticates (via
> pap!) fine.
> > > It has no login prompt.
> >
> > Specifying '+pap' on the user end would require the ISP to authenticate
> > itself to the user's system using it's own secret. As the user doesn't
> > have an entry for the ISP in the pap-secrets, the ISP will be rejected.
> > Only the ISP end should specify '+pap'. In sideways' case, it seems
> > unlikely (not impossible) that the ISP uses PAP if they have a text
> login
> > sequence (userid and password).
> >
>
> It seems to need both. It needs the username/password, ( I know that for
> sure... ) but on the ISP's web site they advertize "PPP and PAP" ... BTW,
> the ISP was
> NO help at all... I e-mailed them to ask about the athuntication, and they
> said "sorry, we can't help you if your not running windows. Our staff can
> only offer
> assistance to Windoze Users" ... Well, I'll try playing with it some more
> ... it's just frustrating... and thanx to everyone that's helping ....
>
those little ms-loving creeps!
try pretending to be a windoze 3.1 user with an old version of
trumpet winsock. this needed people to do a manual login or write a chat
script to authenticate. this will fool them into giving you more information
about the logon process. :)
also if your login name to your isp is different to your username on
your machine you need to give the option "user isp-username" where
isp-username is your login name to your isp. please correct me if i am wrong
guys.
andreas
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