Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 11:02:15 +0200 From: Gunter Loos <Gul@ngonet.be> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP server Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960802090215.00685cf8@ppp-gw>
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At 08:06 1/08/96 -0600, you wrote: >Good advice! Thank you. One other question: What should the permissions on >ppp.secret be? If the file is public, there are no secrets. But if it's >not, the user's account can't read it.... > >--Brett > > Well, if I remember right: its /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, not ppp.options. Memory's fading... Yeah well: I always put it at 0500 or so: just root (which starts up ppp) is able to read it. But then again: there's a security bug in ppp, so you should turn the setuid bit off in /usr/sbin/ppp . Then it won't be able to read the passwd file anymore... Gul. . .__ . |Nationaal Centrum voor OntwikkelingsSamenwerking vzw, NgoNet _| _ [ __ | |Voice Gunter.Loos@+32 2 5392620 Fax +32 2 5391343 (_](/, [_./(_|| |mailto:gul@ngonet.be "You are all weirdos." - Sam the Eagle ----MijnEigenWoordenNietVanIemandAnders - MyOwnExpressionsNotSomeoneElses----
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