On 4/19/2011 3:01 PM, johhny_at_poland77 wrote:
> I just need a "temporary" pppoe server, that only uses PAP
>
> ___Can someone post a howto, just in a few lines, what to do?___
>
> If I just do "pppd require-pap" then it gives this error:
>
> pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
> pppd: but I couldn't fin any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so.
>
> pppd is by default installed. and there are just a few modifications needed to start it with only using PAP auth..
>
> what am I missing?
>
> It's not needed, that the clients actually log in through pppoe, I just need a pppoe server that enforces PAP, so that we could get the passwords of the clients...
Did you see the part in the man page about:
Pppd stores secrets for use in authentication in secrets
files (/etc/ppp/pap-secrets for PAP ..., etc., which is followed by
the expected format?
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