<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >If your PPP server uses PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux PPP HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Overview of what has to be done to get PPP working as a client" HREF="c463.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Checking your distribution PPP Files and setting up the PPP Options" HREF="x526.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Connecting to the PPP server by hand" HREF="x545.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" ><A HREF="http://www.linuxports.com/howto/ppp" TARGET="_top" >Linux PPP HOWTO</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x526.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 9. Overview of what has to be done to get PPP working as a client</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x545.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN537">9.8. If your PPP server uses PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)</H1 ><P >Many ISPs and corporate PPP servers use PAP. If your server does <EM >not</EM > require you to use PAP (if you can log in manually and receive the standard user name/password text based prompts it does not use PAP), you can safely ignore this section.</P ><P >Instead of logging into such a server using a user name and password when prompted to enter them by the server, a PPP server using PAP does not require a text based login.</P ><P >The user authentication information instead is exchanged as part of the link control protocol (LCP), which is the first part of establishing a PPP link.</P ><P >Section <A HREF="pap.html" >Chapter 16</A > provides information on the files you need to set up to establish a PPP link using PAP.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x526.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x545.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Checking your distribution PPP Files and setting up the PPP Options</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c463.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Connecting to the PPP server by hand</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >