please help WVDIAL work without username

I wonder if someone can help me.

I've been trying everything I can think of to make mvdial connect
without a username & password. I have specific need to do this. I can
do it in Windoze DUN OK but not with my beloved linux. I have even
tried KPPP but it also asks for a username/password when I want to use
CHAP.

I can't understand why I can do what I could easily do with Windoze
DUN, that will still dial-up without a username/password.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Chumpmeister wrote:

> I wonder if someone can help me.
>
> I've been trying everything I can think of to make mvdial connect
> without a username & password.

Store the required information in a script. Very insecure.

Or, the wvdial man page shows several ways to get what you want more
securely:

$ man wvdial

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Chumpmeister <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've been trying everything I can think of to make mvdial connect
> without a username & password. I have specific need to do this. I can
> do it in Windoze DUN OK but not with my beloved linux. I have even
> tried KPPP but it also asks for a username/password when I want to use
> CHAP.

You still need a username and password for CHAP authentication, but the
username must be configured as a pppd option (see man pppd, or, perhaps,
man wvdial) and the line

USERNAME * PASSWORD

added to the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file with the obvious substitutions
(the * actually is a *). Wvdial _should_ be configurable so that it
doesn't ask for a username and password.

The way in which the peer authenticates you is entirely controlled by
the peer, i.e, you can't force CHAP if the peer doesn't want authenticate
you with it.

> I can't understand why I can do what I could easily do with Windoze
> DUN, that will still dial-up without a username/password.

There is certainly a username and password configured to use for PPP
authentication somewhere on the MS host. You can't authenticate via
CHAP without them.

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:44:27 -0700, Chumpmeister wrote:

> I've been trying everything I can think of to make mvdial connect
> without a username & password. I have specific need to do this. I can
> do it in Windoze DUN OK but not with my beloved linux. I have even
> tried KPPP but it also asks for a username/password when I want to use
> CHAP.
>
> I can't understand why I can do what I could easily do with Windoze
> DUN, that will still dial-up without a username/password.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

hmmm... I don't quite understand your question.

You want to store your username & password somewhere so that wvdial will
not ask you every time you dialup, or you are accessing an ISP that does
not need any username & password? I don't have any problem doing both.
Just relax, take a deep breath, and try it again by looking at man page
first. Quite straight forward. You'll get it.

HTH

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