From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 20 11:58:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA21763 for current-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA21758 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp132.coladlp2.scsn.net ([208.133.153.132]) by mail.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-41950U6000L1100S0) with ESMTP id AAA211; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:58:58 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by ppp132.coladlp2.scsn.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA03175; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:57:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970920145753.25511@coladlp2.scsn.net> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:57:53 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" To: Alex Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with -current ppp Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net References: <19970920122326.45564@scsn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Alex on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 11:11:10AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 11:11:10AM -0700, Alex wrote: > > # ppp -auto scsn > > Sep 20 10:08:22 rhiannon ppp[156]: Error: Tcp: Can't open socket 3000: No password in ppp.secret > > > > So, it is impossible to telnet to port 3000 to control PPP. If I create > > an /etc/ppp/ppp.secret for test purposes, ppp can open port 3000, but that's > > not what I want, because then only a very small handful of ppp's control > > commands are available. > > In your ppp.secret create a line like this > hostname password > once you telnet into port 3000 type passwd password, and you'll get access > to everything. Once I got past that, I've still had a lot of problem with > ppp -ddial. > Thanks. I was really hoping there was some magic that would make typing a password unnecessary, like before, but you can't win 'em all, eh :-(