From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 13:59:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA25650 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:59:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA25644 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:59:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA02622; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:59:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:59:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: mlduke@concentric.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 mlduke@concentric.net wrote: > All the recent traffic about security and perps has reminded this newbe of > a scary screen message or two. On boot up I get: > > can't open /etc/ppp/ppp.secret > Warning: No password entry for this host in ppp.secret > Warning: All manipulation allowed by anyone in the world > > "ppp.secret" does not exist but "ppp.secret.sample" does what this means is that anyone can telnetin on port 3000 (3001?) and get a ppp> prompt, so they could disconnect your connection or do other insidious things. Using ppp.secret, you can passowrd-protect this interface. It's format is: > the sample reads: > > Oscar OurSecretKey 192.244.184.34/24 > BigBird X4dWg9327 etc .33/32 > tama LocalPasswdForControl > > My question is, does "Oscar" and "BigBird" and "tama" have system meaning? No. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major