From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 23:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17156 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA17147 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 8790 invoked by uid 666); 30 Apr 1998 06:34:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO speedy.chipweb.ml.org) (172.16.1.1) by 172.16.1.5 with SMTP; 30 Apr 1998 06:34:22 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980429232443.03130f6c@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:24:43 -0700 To: Tim Moony , FreeBSD Questions Forum From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: A deeper look into PPP In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message