Re: PPPproblem
> Michel Beland wrote:
> >
> > > word \qabcdefg\q
> >
> > This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in
> > files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by
> > everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the
> > password is replaced by a string of question marks in log files.
>
> I am not familiar with the qabcdefg technique you are discussing.
>
> In order to avoid having my password visible to the world, I break
> up my script into two files.
[ ... ]
> "" ATDT9342100 CONNECT "" ogin:-BREAK-ogin: <my login id> ssword: <my
> password> ^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, this means that you will get the full password inside
/var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages (or whatever file that receives
the output from syslogd). Look up these files and you will see. The
cure is to write \q<my password>, which tells ppp (or chat) that the
following string should not appear in log files. I do not know why
having another \q after the password makes it fail, but it does.
--
Michel Beland beland@CERCA.UMontreal.CA
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