Re: /etc/ppp/pap-secrets is read/writable only by root

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Subject: Re: /etc/ppp/pap-secrets is read/writable only by root
From: john@dhh.gt.org
Date: 09 Feb 1998 10:28:30 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 8767mon3o1.fsfjgh@dhh.gt.org>
In-reply-to: Avery Pennarun's message of Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:37:54 -0500
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980207201033.30740F-100000@discovery.worldvisions.ca> <[🔎] 990.887021805@hands.com> <[🔎] 19980209083754.64396@discovery>

Avery writes:
> The biggest problem is what you mentioned: there is no possibility of a
> user bringing up a connection which the sys-admin had not intended them
> to create.  In some environments, that kind of behaviour is desirable...

I'm having trouble imagining a situation in which it is desirable for a
user to be able to do something which the sysadmin does not want her to do.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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