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.
> Configuration:
> Mandrake 7
> safety level 2
> AMD K6-2 450
>
> An idea, thanks!
In the archives last week I posted about this. At that and higher security
levels, mandrake by default requires the server to authenticate itself. Most
servers are not set up to do this.
put the line
noauth
in the file
/etc/ppp/options
and the problem vanishes
Civileme
