From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 7 3:23:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FCB14C8D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 03:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:26:40 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796DA@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'Josef Karthauser' , Ladavac Marino Cc: Brian Somers , Mark Thomas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Wayne Self Subject: RE: userland ppp - startup Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:20:35 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Josef Karthauser [SMTP:joe@pavilion.net] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 11:53 AM > To: Ladavac Marino > Cc: Brian Somers; Mark Thomas; freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wayne > Self > Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup > > 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.) [ML] Don't know about sppp, but the only halfway secure way to keep this sensitive data is in a file readable by root, and having the program which needs it setuid root. Sounds a lot like /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, doesn't it? The secure way would be not keeping the info at all :) /Marino > 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