> Chris Dingwall wrote:
> > It goes through the usual
> > Username:, Password: prompts....
You should talk to your ISP and see if you can't do a direct PPP
login with PAP authentication. This would make PPP start right
away; there'd be no login or password prompts, and thus no script
to deal with them. This is a lot more reliable than using scripts.
You may also want to consider using pppd.
> They replaced their usual login process with either PAP or CHAP.
It doesn't look like it, if there are prompts like that.
> It is
> suggested that CHAP provides more security but I'd say who's going
> to intercept the carrier between the two peers? It's not like it's
> going over many systems using TCP or anything.
In that situation, I consider CHAP to potentially provide less
security, since you must have unencrypted passwords at both ends.
That means your ISP is guaranteed to know your password. With PAP,
the ISP can keep a one-way encryption of the password rather than
the password itself, and thus not be able to see what your password
is.
cjs
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