From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 7 13:19:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-29.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FAD14D06 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA02027; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:18:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Ladavac Marino , Brian Somers , Mark Thomas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Wayne Self Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup In-Reply-To: <19990707105239.D30024@pavilion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote: > 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.) Everyone can see the environment too, so that's not secure at all. In fact the best place would probably be the ppp configuration file, which should only be readable by root and group ppp (or is it network?). - alex I thought felt your touch In my car, on my clutch But I guess it's just someone who felt a lot like I remember you. - Translator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message