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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:06:28 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, brian@awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: server socket for ppp 
Message-ID:  <199712212006.UAA23265@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Dec 1997 13:54:48 EST." <Pine.SGI.3.96.971221135031.4588A-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu> 

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> I'm not sure if this is necessarily a bug, or if I'm doing something
> wrong.  But in the man page for pppctl, it says a good way to secure
> user ppp is to set the diagnostic server to be a local socket.  It also
> says to give it the mask 0177.  This should create a server socket with
> the protection srw-------.  However, no matter what mode I tell ppp to
> use, it creates a socket with the protection srwxrwxrwx.  Currently my
> set server line looks like:
> 
> set server /var/run/internet "" 0600
> 
> Am I missing something?

This is strange - it works fine for me, although bear in mind, it's a 
mask, so 0600 should create permissions 0177 (s--xrwxrwx).  What 
version of FreeBSD are you using ?  Is there maybe a typo in your 
`set server' line (a `O' (oh) instead of a `0' (zero)) maybe ?

> Joe Clarke
> 
> P.S. Thanks for the ifilters, Brian, they work great.

Good to hear.

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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