From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 6:21:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4F8152E9 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 06:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a071.otenet.gr [195.167.115.71]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA27257 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:21:28 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 18966 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Nov 1999 08:29:24 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP security References: <38275646.AD94D6F3@roadhouse.fsnet.co.uk> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 09 Nov 1999 10:29:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: matt's message of "Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:01:26 +0000" Message-ID: <86aeooukyj.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG matt writes: > Hello from a newbie. > I have configured FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE with kernel ppp and succesfully > connected to my ISP. > I am using an /etc/ppp/chat-script file which contains my username and > password. > In order to dialup as a non-root user I must have my chat-script > permissions as 440. > Is this safe? If the owner of the file is root:wheel, and you carefully check who gets to become a member of the wheel group, it is relatively safe. > I am sure that my ISP uses CHAP or PAP, but when I try to dialup with an > /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets I cannot connect (I get a > connect script failed message). This could be because of a small timeout in ppp.conf, which causes your ppp program to drop the carrier before pap/chap gets the chance to authenticate you into your ISP. Here in Patras, Greece, I am using an ISP where pap/chap takes ages to authenticate, while chat finishes in only a few seconds. You can guess which of the two I'm finally using. Regards. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message