[expert] Re:

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hello,I am a new user of Mandrake 7.0.
>    I have now the following Probelm with the call of pppd or of Kppp,
>  I am announced as roots:
>   I do not get a connection with my Provider, pppd am terminated
>    with the following message:
> 
>       pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
>       pppd: couldn't  find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to
> do so.
>
You need to put in some file somewhere the word "noauth" to
fix this. It's a fairly well known bug. Try searching the
Mandrake list archives for "ppp" and "password" and see
what you can find.
        John