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From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net>
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 18:06:03 -0500
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What happens if you add the following in your appropriate config section in
the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file:

[...]
set authname <YourUserID>
set authkey <YourPasswd>
accept pap
enable pap
set openmode active
[...]

That oughta do it.....

...sjs...

> 
> I'm still dead in the water with 'user ppp' connecting through my
providers
> Ascend Max200. I called my ISP provider and all he could tell me is that
> it will not prompt for username or password. I have FreeBSD and Windows95
> both on this machine and Windows95 will connect though this
Server/Router.
> He did say that it uses PAP to authenticate and I have tried PAP without
> any luck. Apparently, I'm doing something wrong but I'm not sure what.
> If anyone can assist I would be grateful. Thanks in advance.
>