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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: KPPP and PAP authentication
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1998-02-02 1:15:32
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Roel K. Brand wrote:
> 
> My ISP requires me to login using PAP authentication.
> So after the CONNECT string has been received, I do not want to
> do any login chat, but I want to give control to pppd....
> 
> I can't seem to do this with kppp. Has anyone else been able to?
> Please mail me you kppprc.

More recent versions of kppp will allow you to easily setup PAP as the
authentication method. Simply fetch Beta 3 of KDE.
 
> Another thing is that kppp gives me a segmentation fault if I enter a
> 'conversation rule': SEND ''. So I don't fill in anything in the field
> after 'send'. The reason I want to do this is because to get a login
> prompt  from my ISP, I have to 'enter' first.

This problem will vanish if you upgrade to a newer version of kdelibs
(see above). 
As a workaround I recommend inserting a dummy command as the first  
command of your script. A simple & harmless 'Pause 0' will do the job.

Harri.

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