From owner-freebsd-isdn Sat Nov 13 3:58:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (indyio.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0052F14EEF; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 03:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de) Received: from mars.rz.uni-sb.de (ns0.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.5]) by indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10744952; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:58:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from work.net.local (maxtnt-033.telip.uni-sb.de [134.96.70.160]) by mars.rz.uni-sb.de (8.8.8/8.8.4/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA23173; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:58:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de (netchild@localhost.net.local [127.0.0.1]) by work.net.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00904; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:29:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Vodix.CS.Uni-SB.de) Message-Id: <199911131029.LAA00904@work.net.local> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:29:23 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: i4b & security (Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf?) To: logix@foobar.franken.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, isdn@freebsd.org, hm@hcs.de In-Reply-To: <19991111200547.A16123@foobar.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Intel: where Quality is job number 0.9998782345! http://netchild.home.pages.de A.Leidinger+Home @ WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de Key fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message