Re: PPPproblem
> >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.
>
> It would have seemed a little better it pppd/chat would make the
> passwords in the logfiles unreadable by default and require a special
> switch to make it readable, rather than the way it currently is.
How is pppd/chat supposed to guess that what you pass to the ISP is a
password ? This would not work unless you decide to not show anything
in the log files.
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