chris wrote:
it seems to be something in the exchange of username or password that
xtra is not acknowledging under hardy 8.04, but is under xp pro
The ppp log reports "looks like a keyword", and then crash. times out or
terminates I am no completely sure which.
From memory there is an error like this created by 'root' being owner of:
r...@celeron2195-ubuntu804:~$ ls /etc/ppp/* -l
-rw------- 1 root root 101 2008-08-01 11:25 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1754 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ip-down
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1892 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ip-up
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 784 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ipv6-down
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 922 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ipv6-up
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13486 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/options
-rw------- 1 root root 1649 2008-08-01 11:25 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/pppoe_on_boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 2008-08-01 12:46 /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
..which 'user' needs write access to one/some of in order to complete
the login.
Compared to old install (see "peers" difference), from which I used to
dialup:
r...@celeron2195-ubuntu804:/mnt/sda7/etc/ppp$ ls -l
total 72
-rw------- 1 root root 118 2008-03-30 15:08 chap-secrets
<snip>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13523 2008-05-14 08:35 options
-rw------- 1 root root 1666 2008-03-30 15:08 pap-secrets
drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 4096 2007-11-26 12:43 peers
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 2007-10-05 08:57 pppoe_on_boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-22 16:55 resolv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 2008-05-29 17:41 resolv.conf
r...@celeron2195-ubuntu804:/mnt/sda7/etc/ppp/peers$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 109 2008-03-30 15:08 ppp0
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 1093 2007-10-16 12:28 provider
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 2007-06-15 01:51 wvdial
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75 2007-06-15 01:51 wvdial-pipe
