Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8673
ppp not working properly with linux 6.1
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
i recently upgraded my linux from 6.0 to 6.1, after upgrading i could not connect to the internet, when i was working with 6.0 i was able to connect to the net and share with other client machines, but now i could not. i even tried upgradion the ppp version to ppp-2.3.10-3 and initscript to initscripts-4.70-1, but nothing seem to connect to the internet properly. when i execute this command /usr/sbin/pppd i get the following error messages /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I /usr/sbin/pppd: couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Please help me out in the above matter. thanking you in anticipation balaji
Sounds like either /etc/ppp/chap-secrets or /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or both) has been overwritten in the upgrade. Both are listed in ppp-2.3.10-1.i386.rpm so it's possible that's the culprit.
HiYa, this is easy to fix. There is now the auth option in pppd as default. Just put in /etc/pppd/options the line wit noauth in there. winfried.altmann@bigfoot.com
As rhw@memalpha.cx suggested, check and be sure your chap- and pap-secrets files are still in the right places. winfried.altmann@hmi.de is also correct that adding the "noauth" option to /etc/ppp/options should fix it; the latest initscripts package from Raw Hide includes the "noauth" option by default for clients if you'd rather go that route. Please let me know if this resolves the problem.
No answer in two years