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Subject: Re: isdnpppd will only work with +ua option
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970202185244.peter@grendel.> from Peter Korsten at "Feb 2, 97 06:52:44 pm"
To: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:39:31 +0100 (MET)
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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