John & sascha....it's the /etc/ppp/options file.
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:/etc/ppp/options
>
> 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