Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 19:06:36 -0500 (EST) From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> To: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> Cc: "freebsd.questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ijppp cannot talk to modem (/dev/cuaa1) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951230185154.24246A-100000@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951231090450.25959B-100000@wedge.cc.utas.edu.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Carey Nairn wrote: > sounds like you have a password set in ppp.secret ... if this is the > case you will only have access to the "pass" and "quit" commands, > anything else will respond with "what?" until you use the pass command to > enter the password... > > Incidentally the password system is the only part of iijppp I find > annoying, since it displays the password in plain text you have to type > pass <password> on the command line... Concurred, I'm now using what is proberly the proper set up for iijppp. In the recent past, I always got password warnings, but ppp always worked without any of that 'pass' stuff. That new 'what?' response worried me. Atleast it works, but yes, the displayed password is not a good feature. My main problem was that I could only access ppp as root. Only a problem when in X. I've since fixed that by starting X as a normal user, going 'su', cd'ing to /usr/sbin, and running ppp: $ ./ppp This may me a security risk, but atleast I can run X & friends as a regular user. Thanks for writing. Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com >--->--->--->--->---> FreeBSD 2.1.0 <---<---<---<---<---< > On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote: > > > Stephen, > > > > I can now sympathise with your situation. In an attempt to run ppp > > as a normal user, I've caused ppp to respond to all of my requests > > of 'dial panix' 'set ?' 'show modem' with a "What?". [...] > > > > I should have left it alone. > > [...] > > anyway, I hope this helps.. > > cheers, > Carey >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SUN.3.91.951230185154.24246A-100000>