kppp & my username/password

[brasso]

On my previous RH7 install I struggled getting connected with my ISP. Finally someone guided me into Kppp. I took the defaults, and it connected like magic.

Then I had to reinstall RH7. One of the first things I did was to set up my Kppp connection with the ISP. Dialed in the first time! But... my username and coded password used to be displayed (in my previous RH7 install) in the window with the 'Connect' button. Now it does not display and I have to type my username and password each time. I guess with all my thrashing around last install I must have gotten some config file set correctly by accident.

I found mention of the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file and stuck the username and password in there, but no help. (Pretty sure my ISP uses PAP).

Can anyone tell me a way to finesse this so I don't have to type username and password each time?
Earl

[drmbb]

In Kppp, choose setup instead of connect. Under the tab where you set up your accounts there should be the option of choosing to "remember password" or something like that.

[brasso]

Before I read your suggestion I tried configuring with the RH7 DialupConfiguration, another way of connecting to ISP, which I could never get working before. This time the thing worked and connected me (probably because I FINALLY caught on to using @ispname on the the end of username, a recent ISP change). This didn't appear to help the Kppp connect thingie though.

So I deleted the Kppp config and made another, again using the defaults. I did leave checked the 'save password', but since it was a default, I'm pretty sure I did it like that the 1st time too. However, on this attempt the username and password DOES stick in the Connection window. I'm suspecting that the DialupConfigurtion (which does have a box to configure my username and password into it) wrote them in some config file I haven't discovered as yet, and Kppp picked up on that file when I opened it.

Or I was just holding my mouth right.
Earl

[donxc2]

Unless it changed with newer distro try looking in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets or pap-secrets, whichever one you use