Re: [ILUG] Tinet and pppd

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain doozer.dublin.wbtsystems.com)
Date: Tue 04 May 1999 - 17:22:03 IST


In message <01JAT1X79SCA0004WI at domain kira.team400.ie>, Noel.C.Carroll at domain life.friendsfir
st.ie writes:
>I'm trying to get connected to my tinet account at the moment without much
>success. I tried the tinet script available ont he web page but this isn't
>working. I tried netcfg and set up my connection and put my username and
>password into chap-secrets and still am getting nowhere. Whats happening is
>that I'm getting to dial in but then I'm getting a message saying there was a
>script error and I'm being kicked out. In my chap-secrets file my password i
>s
>in plaintext. Is that ocrrect. My chap-secrets file looks like this;
>
>noelmc * <plaintext_password>
>
>The spaces between the three fields are tabs. Next I'm going to try ezppp bu
>t
>will this od any good?
>I tried to use netcfg to generate a pap entry that I could copy to my
>chap-secrets file but entering my username inthe 'send username' box and hitti
>ng
>'insert' does nothing. Has anyone got ideas about what I'm doing wrong,
>especially fellow tinet account holders?
script error? it's probably the tinet chat sequence.. you need something like

"!!" username \
"" \password\

or don't use a script at all and use CHAP instead (you don't need to do
manual authentication for CHAP).. in which case you should have:

noelmc * password
* noelmc ""

in chap-secrets, and
username noelmc
in /etc/ppp/options (check that with the man page for def though).

Regards
L.

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Liam Bedford		System Administrator
WBT Systems		Phone: 01 4170153
Block 2, Harcourt St, Dublin 2


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