Date: 09 Nov 1999 10:29:24 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP security Message-ID: <86aeooukyj.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: matt's message of "Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:01:26 %2B0000" References: <38275646.AD94D6F3@roadhouse.fsnet.co.uk>
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matt <matt@roadhouse.fsnet.co.uk> 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, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "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
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