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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