Re: plog

["John C. Ellingboe" <john@guntersville.net>]

Jim Foltz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote:
> > > When I type plog I get this:
> > >
> > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied
> > >
> > > the attributes for ppp.log are
> > > -rw-r-----   1 root     adm          8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log
> > >
> > > What can I do to change this?
> >
> > You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world
> > readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file.
> 
> Under what conditins does the password show up? I just grep'd my
> /var/log/ppp.log for my password, andi t wasn't there. Is it because
> I use CHAP that it doesn't show up?
> 

Turn off debug and kdebug after you get things working proper.  I
believe it is kdebug that puts the userid and password in the log if I
remember correctly.

John

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