Re: tlug: PAP and CHAP

["Alan B. Stone" <stoneab@example.com>]

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tlug note from "Alan B. Stone" <stoneab@example.com>
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Hey all,

I've been having trouble with the PPP activate and deactivate
buttons/functions within Red Hat 4.1 control-panel.  When I'm using the
Motif Window Manager I have no problem connecting to my ISP, but when I
try to shut down the ppp link, nothing happens, and the link stays open.
However, when I'm running the AfterStep window manager it works great. 
Could someone tell me why this is?  Thanks.

Alan

Jim Tittsler wrote:
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> tlug note from Jim Tittsler <jwt@example.com>
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> On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 02:53:13PM +0900, Alan B. Stone wrote:
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> > My name is Alan Stone.  I'm new to the mailing list.  I ran across the
> > TLUG page last night, and wanted to be able to talk to other Linux users
> > here in Japan.
> 
> Welcome to the group.  I hope you can make it to one of our nerd
> lunches/meetings.
> 
> > does not prompt me for login or password.  I have read some on the uses
> > of PAP and CHAP, but am a little confused how I can implement that with
> > the Red Hat 4.1 PPP configuration control-panel.  Could someone help me
> 
> I confess, I've not tried it using the control-panel, but it is straight-
> forward to do with a text editor following the steps in section 13 of the
> PPP HOWTO.
> 
> Just create/edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and/or /etc/ppp/pap-secrets as
> appropriate, containing your user-ID, the name of the server (* works
> as a wildcard) and your password.  (Obviously, be careful with the
> permissions on these files. :-)
> 
> For example, the simple case /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file looks like:
> # Secrets for authentication using PAP (/etc/ppp/pap-secrets)
> # client   server   secret        IP addresses
> jwt        *        YoureKidding
> 
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