Re: Help! mgetty & ppp won't play together

[Bob Billson <bob@goleader.com>]

John Pearson <john@huiac.apana.org.au> wrote:
> I have absolutely no idea why, but my slink boxes with ppp-pam
> installed require an extra field in pap-secrets for dial-in PPP
> to work, like so:
>  rich    molec3  ""      * *
> 
> If you still have problems after changing "molec3" to your hostname,
> try that.

hmm... That's odd.  I'll give it a try and see what happens.

> To any PPP experts out there who know what I'm talking about,
> please tell me what this extra field signifies so I can sleep 
> at night...

Indeed.  Inquirer minds want to know. :-)

             bob
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