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Date:      Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:24:43 -0700
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>, FreeBSD Questions Forum <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A deeper look into PPP
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19980429232443.03130f6c@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429204203.596A-100000@uniqsite.com>

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At 08:47 PM 4/29/98 -0700, Tim Moony wrote:
>When I ran ppp as a regular user, an error message pops up:
>
>Alert: ppp: Access violation: Please protect /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
>
>PPP is set to permissions 4550 last I checked.  The user is in group
>network.  

The message seems to indicate that your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf has relaxed
permissions on it. It should be 0400 (or 0440?), since you don't want users
getting dialup passwords or anything out of your ppp.conf file.

--Ludwig Pummer
ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org
ICQ UIN: 692441   http://chipweb.home.ml.org

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