[plug] re: changing to PAP

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> 
> > How does one goes about changing an existing dialup to an ISP to PAP (the
> > ISP has changed it's authentication). This is a RH6 server. They have just
> > the one modem on ttyS1.
> 
> Change the chat script so that it stops after seeing the "CONNECT" string
> (ie it does not look for "ogin:" and send "$username" etc)
> 
> Then change your pppd script and add "user username" at the end replacing
> "username" with the username used for authentication
> 
> Then add a line to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets of the form:
> 
> username	*	password

Like what Matt said BUT if you're usiing the "RedHat" scripts then set the 
PAPNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

That should be all you need.

Yours Tony.

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