The symptoms are the same as bug 6506, which you report as closed for 6.2. But I am running 6.2. (Specifically, rp3-1.0.7-4.) Specifically, this is what happened: (1) I added a new PPP connection using the Dialup Configuration Tool. a) I tried connecting using "Debug" - it worked. b) I tried connecting using the RH PPP Dialer - it failed to even dial. (2) I then tried dialing using wvdial from the command line. This worked. (3) Then I checked the pap-secrets/chap-secrets files and they had entries like 'USERNAME * PASSWORD'. (4) Then I tried using the RH PPP Dialer again - now it worked. (5) I deleted the interface using the Dialup Configuration Tool. (6) I hand deleted the entries from the pap/chap secrets files. (7) I re-added the PPP entry in the Dialup Configuration Tool. At this point dialer would dial in but fail to connect. Connecting with wvdial once again worked, and once again made the new pap/chap entries, and once again made the RH PPP Dialer work. I should mention 2 things: -This is a AT&T World Net account. (I selected AT&T in the Configuration Tool) -If I check linuxconf (which is how I set up my PPP connections in 6.1) I see my username listed by not the PAP Password.
Same here on a feshly installed RH 7.0 with rp3-1.1.4-4 and wvdial-1.41-10 and a normal ISP Setup just one account. The only special thing I did was after the setup run rp3-config, Edit the account, goto Advanced and enable Let PPP do all authentication. Have not manually edited any config files. Although rp3 has always been buggy and crashing for me, at least for 6.2 it was working fine . I would tell you the version but it's on another partition with with 6.2 and rpm -r doesn't work on that because the databse format has changed. rpm refuses to read that lest I change it to db3 format
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.