Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:39:31 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de To: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions), isdn@muc.ditec.de (FreeBSD ISDN Distribution List) Subject: Re: isdnpppd will only work with +ua option Message-ID: <199702030739.IAA23017@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970202185244.peter@grendel.> from Peter Korsten at "Feb 2, 97 06:52:44 pm"
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Peter Korsten writes: > I've gotten the bisdn-0.97 package with the PPP-patches for my > Teles.S0/16.3 ISDN-card to work fine under 2.2, but only if I start > isdnpppd (a somewhat modified version of pppd, that doesn't use > /etc/ppp/options) with the '+ua file' option, where 'file' is the > file that contains my usercode and password. Using the pap-secrets > file won't work. Since the man page states that the '+ua' option > is obsolecent, I'd rather use the pap-secrets file. > > By placing debug statements in the isdnppd source code, I found > out why this is. It explicitly wants me to use my hostname > (grendel.IAEhv.nl) as the first field in the pap-secrets file and > tries to authenticate with that, while my provider wants me to > authenticate with my normal usercode with a 'P' prepended. > > Is there a way to get around this? At this stage in the development, I'd say "sure: rewrite the code". But -questions isn't the appropriate list for this question: send your questions to isdn@muc.ditec.de (sign up with majordomo), and they might be able to help. Greg
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