RE: Gnome PPP dial-up problems

[bill helke cp Novartis com]

Exactly, although I believe "lock" is default in there - not put in there by
kppp.  Again, please see the link to Jay Painter's EzPPP HowTo
(http://www.serv.net/~cameron/ezppp/howto.html).  If you read through it
carefully and follow the directions, you can get gnome-ppp to work
correctly.  The /etc/ppp/options file should be empty to make things work
because gnome-ppp supplies the options to the ppp daemon directly.

Also, the reason I don't use standard Linux PAP with Mindspring is that I
don't want others (e.g.: my kids) logging onto my ISP using the info in
pap-secrets.  If I use the script in gnome-ppp to do the authentication,
then my login information gets saved to my HOME directory (where they can't
see or use it).  Yes, there are other ways to handle this security issue,
but this is one of the most logical and easiest ways I have seen to
accomplish this task.

William F. Helke

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan [mailto:gardnerj@pro-usa.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 6:20 PM
To: Andrew Post
Subject: Re: Gnome PPP dial-up problems


Could someone illuminate why my PAP authentication might not be working?
Could it
have anything to do with a lock that I believe kppp puts into ppp/options ?

Jonathan

Andrew Post wrote:

> Why are you using a script with Mindspring? They have PAP
> authentication.
>
> Andrew

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