Re: (ASCEND) System password prompt

[Phillip Vandry <vandryp@psi.ca>]

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Beth Morgan wrote:
> 
> > I never wondered about this until now...  Our Maxes are set up to expect
> > Win/Mac PPP sessions as the default type of connection.  We have a Linux
> 
> I assume that by Win/Mac PPP sessions you are meaning PAP.  If so why
> not just configure the Linux box to use PAP as well.  Then the script
> only needs to deal with the actual dialing process and leave the
> authentication process to pppd and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.

Can someone explain why so many out of the box Linux configurations
(default configurations in distributions) seem to insist on using a
send/expect login script? It seems to me to be anachronistic!

-Phil
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