On 10-Nov-98 Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> The pppd man page is out of date. Where it says "Each line in a
> secrets file has at least three fields", read "has four fields".
On 10-Nov-98 David Bannon wrote:
> I use wildcards in pap-secrets and rely on the underlying operating system
> user name/passwd system for authentication. Unless you do not want to have
> local accounts for everyone who dials in, I suggest you do the same.
>
> pap-secrets :
> * * '' *
On 11-Nov-98 Upali Weerasinghe wrote:
> yes sir:
>
> What about your Ip-address, ? ha.
> Ok try this and let me know
>
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets:
>
># Secrets for authentication using PAP
># client server secret IP addresses
> * * "" *
Thanks a lot!
The real point was "four fields" in pap-secrets file.
It worked with either
user * password *
or with the login option and
* * "" *
which I found preferable because the user name is logged in wtmp
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