PAP authentication?

Hi all,

My ISP all of a sudden decided to start using PAP authentication instead of the terminal he used in the past.

Since then I cannot use my beloved DIALD to do the dialling. If I use WVDIAL from YAST (I use SUSE 7.3) I can connect OK because YAST offers you the option to use PAP/CHAP authentication!

What do I need to change in order to force my DIALD version 1.0 to use this authentication?

Please help if you can!

73 de Demetre SV1UY
e-mail [email protected]
http://www.athnet.ampr.org/~sv1uy

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Hi Demetre,

Authentication is done by pppd.

Check that you have a line in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets with your username and password for your account on your ISP. It's probably already been put there if WVDIAL works, though.

Try adding 'pppd-options user xxxxxxxx' to your diald.conf, or add the 'user xxxxxxxx' to any existing pppd-options line where xxxxxxxx is your username on your ISP. This tells pppd which username/password to use from pap-secrets to authenticate you.

If that doesn't work, add 'debug' to the pppd-options and look in the logs for more clues. Check 'man pppd' for the 'user' and 'name' options
- perhaps pppd is picking the wrong entry from pap-secrets or chap-secrets for some reason.

Regards,

Mark VE3DTE