On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Al Urbaitis wrote:

> I have a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file that looks like this...
>
> login * password
>
> with the appropriate login and password

Just add "name login" to your options file. If your username (machine
name?) is not "login", pppd doesn't otherwise know to use that entry.

> I have an /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file that is identical
>
> I don't know where to set up pppd  to request to use any
> particular authentication  mechanism.

Don't need to. It'll try "pap" first, as long as it finds a match in
"pap-secrets".

> I thought the "noauth" just keeps rebellion from asking
> "netopia" to authenticate itself...

That's correct.


Frederick