Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:21:57 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Mark Thomas <thomas@clark.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Wayne Self <wself@cdrom.com> Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup Message-ID: <19990707122157.I30024@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796DA@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>; from Ladavac Marino on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:20:35PM %2B0200 References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796DA@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:20:35PM +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote: > [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 :) It does :) That said doesn't sysinstall using ppp to do a net install? How does it setup username/password, etc. 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
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