Re: ppp log security (was: couldn't match host name or address)
Well, the bo base install disks make /var/log/ppp.log world readable
(why?) so that anyone using the system can then see the password.
Aaron Walker <aaron@iconmedia.com> writes:
> Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs,
> is root.
>
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > > > password \qpassword\q
> > > "" \qpassword\q
> >
> > Incidentally, you don't want the second \q; it will turn echo to the log
> > back on, and the password WILL then go into the log.
> >
> > hamish
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>
>
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> Aaron Walker
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