okay here goes:
I have a PCQ Linux 2004 (based on Fedora core 1), kernel 2.4.22, with kde 3.2, installed on a P3.

i am logged in as root, i hit the kppp launcher on my panel, i get this message:

'the password you typed is incorrect. please try again.' (note: i am logged in as root!)

but when i use the terminal, and type kppp, it works just fine - i.e kppp is launched without a problem.

interestingly this does not happen when i log in as any other user. i type in the password when asked and its accepted without an issue.

my log file says:
kppp:
unknown entries:
auth could not identify password for [root]: 1 Time[s]
authentification failure;logname= uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser=ayrusnes rhost= user=root : 1 time[s]

well?

"i am logged in as root, i hit the kppp launcher on my panel, i get this message:

'the password you typed is incorrect. please try again.' (note: i am logged in as root!)

but when i use the terminal, and type kppp, it works just fine - i.e kppp is launched without a problem."

You could try changing the kppp launcher on your panel to run kppp in a terminal. To change the kppp launcher panel entry right click on the menu icon, click on menu editor, and find kppp in the menu. Then click on Run in Terminal and Apply.

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thanks jailbait.

i did manage to solve the problem.
what i did was;

right clicked launcher for 'properties'
then went to 'application' and 'advanced option'

there i selected 'run as a different user' and defined 'root' as the user.

voila! it worked. now the launcher works just fine, no password issues. i didnt really have a problem going through the terminal each time, but this tiny issue was bothering me.

well i don't really know the logic behind what i did, it's been trial and error for a few weeks now, this time it just worked, but i would love to know what i really did, and is it correct.

This happened to me also. I am also using the same PCQ Linux 2004.
This is because there are two directories containing kppp one is /usr/bin and the other is /sbin. If you use as the root, it should run kppp from /sbin however by default it will not. Earlier it happened in my case. I too could not resolve the problem for a long time but then when I linked my root users kppp to /sbin it worked.

Linux is really challanging.