Ed,

> I could put noauth in the options file but, 
> In the /etc/ppp/options file it says: 
> # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network
> # packets to be sent or received.
> # Please do not disable this setting. It is expected to be standard in
> # future releases of pppd. Use the call option (see manpage) to disable
> # authentication for specific peers.
> auth                    

You're working too hard, just comment out the "auth" and put "noauth" in
there.  It's your system, you can do whatever you want with it.  The
other stuff the author(s) of pppd are suggesting has the same effect but
does so with an "abstraction layer" of sorts.

You can bypass the abstraction layer and just get it to work.  You do
NOT need the peer to authenticate itself if you are calling an ISP.

> In the pppd man page it says: 
>        call name
>               Read  options  from  the  file /etc/ppp/peers/name.
>               This file may contain privileged options,  such  as
>               noauth, even if pppd is not being run by root.  The
>               name string may not begin with / or include .. as a
>               pathname component.  The format of the options file
>               is described below.                    
> ...
>        file name
>               Read   options   from  file  name  (the  format  is
>               described below).  The file must be readable by the
>               user who has invoked pppd.           

> So rather than going counter to the fair warning of the author I think I
> should 
> 1. create a file /etc/ppp/peers/SomeFilewithAltOptions
> 2. set permissions accordingly. 
> 3. add the line
>   noauth 
> 4. In the /etc/ppp/options file put the line
> call SomeFilewithAltOptions

> I'm missing something or how is this different than simply putting
> "noauth" in the
> options file? I read the bit about the format of the options files
> (.pppdrc, options, options.ttyXX) but am not sure about the usage. 

> It seems that the idea is to restrict running pppd but I'm not seeing
> how this is done. 

> Ed

> Jim Ockers wrote:
> > 
> > Ed:
> > 
> > Add the "noauth" option to the /etc/ppp/options file.  This will tell
> > pppd that you do not require the peer to authenticate itself.  It should
> > work once you do that.
> > 
> > I use ppp for both dialing in (terminal server) and dialing out (ISP
> > access) on various systems.  I always configure the dialing-out port
> > as noauth but you want to make sure the dialing-in ports require authen-
> > tication.
> > 
> > HTH.
> > 
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