[LI] PPPD problems over - need more info

["Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" <sam_buddhe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

After an extensive readup of the manpage, I tried putting the 
"noauth" option in the /etc/pppd/options file. And wonder of 
wonders, it actually worked!

Here are the two manpage entries:

auth
Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network
packets to be sent or received.  This option is the default if the
system has a default route.  If neither this option nor the
noauth option is specified, pppd will only allow the peer to use
IP addresses to which the system does not already have a route.

noauth
Do not require the peer to authenticate itself.  This option is
privileged.

What is all this "route" business in the "auth" entry?
What is a "priviledged" option?

And one more - how do I set up pppd to be accessible to the 
general users?

Sameer.
Registered Linux User #148874
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