Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:57:53 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with -current ppp Message-ID: <19970920145753.25511@coladlp2.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970920110951.285B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>; from Alex on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 11:11:10AM -0700 References: <19970920122326.45564@scsn.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970920110951.285B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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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 :-(
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