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Date:      Fri, 01 May 1998 23:20:17 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>
Cc:        Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>, FreeBSD Questions Forum <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A deeper look into PPP 
Message-ID:  <199805012220.XAA16919@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 May 1998 08:57:12 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501085622.10426A-100000@uniqsite.com> 

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> > 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.
> > 
> 
> I am configuring ppp to act as a dialup server.  What should I change the
> mode bits to?

# mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /
# chown root.wheel /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
# chmod 600 /etc/ppp/ppp.conf

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....



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