From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 31 9:14:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAC537B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TMA-1.brad-x.com (static-b2-191.highspeed.eol.ca [64.56.236.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AAF43E31 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@brad-x.com) Received: from brad-x.com (unknown [199.212.61.131]) by TMA-1.brad-x.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02D122104A; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:52:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D48072C.6000307@brad-x.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:50:04 -0400 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Morozovsky Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/ppp and /usr/sbin/pppd References: <20020731194709.A37003-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Brad Brad wrote: > >BB> These two seem to serve the same purpose. /usr/sbin/ppp seems to be the >BB> more advanced and secure of the two, especially in light of the security >BB> advisory (02:32) regarding /usr/sbin/pppd. >BB> >BB> Do we need to keep it? > >IMHO, due to POLA, yes, at least until 4.x life cycle. > >(Personally, I prefer ppp ;-) > >Sincerely, >D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >*** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Forgive my ignorance, what is POLA? Simon: Fixed :P Brad -- // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message