[pptp-server] pppd problem

[Nate Carlson]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 kmail at dolphinsearch.com wrote:
> I am getting this error message in my syslog, when a user tries to 
> login.  I have the chap-secrets file setup with the right user name 
> and password.  Any help?
> 
> 
> pppd[1598]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
> pppd[1598]: couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use 
> to do so.
> 
> 
> Kmail at dolphinsearch.com

Are you using a linux client? The remote machine may be configured to
require the server to authenticate itself, back.. if you are using Linux
and pptp-client on the client end, add 'noauth' to the ppp options file on
the client machine.

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