Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:29:23 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de> To: logix@foobar.franken.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, isdn@freebsd.org, hm@hcs.de Subject: i4b & security (Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf?) Message-ID: <199911131029.LAA00904@work.net.local> In-Reply-To: <19991111200547.A16123@foobar.franken.de>
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On 11 Nov, Harold Gutch wrote:
>> > Using command substitution in /etc/rc.conf{,.local} is NOT
>> > officially supported. I think it should have always been
>> > clear that there should _only_ be plain variable assignments.
>>
>> But with i4b you have to specify a username-password pair in rc.conf
>> (spppconfig_isp0) and I didnīt want to show it to every user (rc.conf
>> is u+rw,g+r,o+r for reasons you mention).
>
> What about /etc/start_if.isp0?
Yes, with permissions of u+r,go-rwx itīs more secure than the currently
recommended way.
Hellmuth? Will this be the new official way of configuring i4b?
Bye,
Alexander.
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