From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 13:10:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA21300 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:10:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from darius.concentric.net (root@darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21294 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) From: mlduke@concentric.net Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.184.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.7/(97/09/12 5.7)) id QAA08539; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:09:59 -0500 (EST) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mlduke.concentric.net (ts001d20.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.32]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.8.7) id QAA27861; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:09:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:13:13 -0900 (AKST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk All the recent traffic about security and perps has reminded this newbe of a scary screen message or two. On boot up I get: can't open /etc/ppp/ppp.secret Warning: No password entry for this host in ppp.secret Warning: All manipulation allowed by anyone in the world "ppp.secret" does not exist but "ppp.secret.sample" does the sample reads: Oscar OurSecretKey 192.244.184.34/24 BigBird X4dWg9327 etc .33/32 tama LocalPasswdForControl My question is, does "Oscar" and "BigBird" and "tama" have system meaning? Ignore this question if its just plain too dumb. Duke ------------------------------------------------- Resumes By Duke mlduke@resumes-by-duke.com -------------------------------------------------