From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 7 2:52:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3109214CAA for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 02:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) id KAA42482; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:52:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:52:39 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Ladavac Marino Cc: Brian Somers , Mark Thomas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Wayne Self Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup Message-ID: <19990707105239.D30024@pavilion.net> References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796D9@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796D9@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>; from Ladavac Marino on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:46:27AM +0200 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:46:27AM +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote: > > > Something like this should do it. It may be nice to also allow the > > authname/authkey to be specified on the command line so that they > > can easily be set in rc.conf, by hand or by sysinstall. > > > [ML] You do not really want these on the command line for > everyone to see with ps. (nor in rc.conf for everyone to see with e.g. > cat) Hmm... how to do this then? The sppp setup code in rc.* allows username/password to be specified. Can it be done in the environment then? (If rc.conf is visable then the sppp config gives usernames and passwords away as it stands today.) Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message