Bug#295286: kppp: put wrong password to pap-secrets
Hi!
> I've tryed to reproduce the bug but kppp stores the password
> in .kde/share/config/kppprc instead of *-secrets here and stores the
> password correctly:
> Name=my_connection
> Password="`
>
> How have you managed to get kppp to store the password in *-secrets? It
> shouldn't touch that files (and it shouldn't have permission to edit them
> if you just add a user to the "dip" group and run kppp with that user).
I don't know why, but /usr/bin/kppp is suid-root in the package and it really
writes pap-secrets. When I remove suid bit, it ignores pap-secrets silently.
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Alexander Kogan
Institute of Applied Physics
Russian Academy of Sciences
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