From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 7 4:22:24 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 3008A14C2E for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 04:22:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) id MAA70081; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:21:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:21:57 +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: <19990707122157.I30024@pavilion.net> References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796DA@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: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796DA@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>; from Ladavac Marino on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:20:35PM +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 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