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Re: incoming PAP authentication failures



On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 07:20:57PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
> I double checked it and it is mode 600 root.root.  

Well, what do you have in pap-secrets?
It would not work for me without:

# magic fix
*       *       ""      *

I believe this is still secure -- anyone with an account on your
system can use ppp, but nobody else. I haven't tried it with shadow
passwords for a while but last time I turned on those it didn't go
either.


Hamish

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