From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 17 17:27: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-20.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA910153E2 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:26:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA15424; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:58:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00661; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:12:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909172312.AAA00661@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Alex Kwan" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and /etc/ppp/ppp.secret In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:53:26 +0800." <000d01bf012d$3dca7de0$b0c2fea9@parsley> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:12:35 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi! > > I dialup to my ISP with user mode PPP, > after I put the entry of username and password > on /etc/ppp/ppp.secret as follow: > alexkwan abcdefgh This allows you to authenticate alexkwan. If you're dialing an ISP, they won't want to authenticate. > do I need the following entry in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: > set authname alexkwan > set authkey abcdefgh This allows you to send authentication info to the peer - used when your ISP demands PAP or CHAP. > Thanks -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message