From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 7 4:28:22 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 CA8C014C2E for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 04:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:30:20 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796DB@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 13:24:16 +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 1:22 PM > 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 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. [ML] It asks for it in a dialog box, IIRC (never having used it :) /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