Re: solved: Re: issues connecting with ppp

Boris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.leaf.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 22.12.20 um 12:51 schrieb Erich Titl:
> Hi Boris
> 
> Am 22.12.2020 um 12:45 schrieb Boris:
>> Hej Erich,
>>
> 
>>
>> Well, the credential's are like
>> 1234567890#ispnet * G79jh66P4p
>>
>> One thing that is noticeable about the dialup data (changed here of 
>> course) is the # in the username.
>> But this should not be a problem for pap-secrets, because the fields 
>> are separated with blanks.
>> https://tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/x1034.html
>>
>> The more I was surprised the quotes made it working in chap-secrets.
> 
> It depends on how those fields are parsed. Typicaly the quotes serve to 
> keep information in a single entity.
> 
> You could try to leave the quotes away on the password field. 

I tried this right after understanding that chap-authentication is required.

> If it 
> still runs 

no.

> then I am suspecting the hash being treated as a comment of 
> some sort in the chap-secrets file.

could be like so

To give a template for chap-secrets, it would not be a mistake to use 
quotes.

Cheers,

Boris


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