From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 30 18:54:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05153 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:54:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05125 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:53:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmwraal@ibm.net) Received: from kato (slip-32-100-221-185.wa.us.ibm.net [32.100.221.185]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA146040 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:52:57 GMT From: "James Wraalstad" To: Subject: pppd options Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:52:52 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bdd482$168517a0$b9dd6420@kato> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199808290230.MAA00645@phoenix.welearn.com.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have been reading older man pages vs 2.2.7 and RFC's about pppd options. My question is why has the +ua option in conjunction with a "login" file as applied to pap authentication has been declared obsolete in favor of the pap-secrets file in conjunction with the "name", "domain", "user", and other options? Thank you for your attention. James Wraalstad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message