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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:52:39 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Mark Thomas <thomas@clark.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Wayne Self <wself@cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: userland ppp - startup
Message-ID:  <19990707105239.D30024@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796D9@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>; from Ladavac Marino on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:46:27AM %2B0200
References:  <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796D9@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>

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On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:46:27AM +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote:
> 
> > Something like this should do it.  It may be nice to also allow the
> > authname/authkey to be specified on the command line so that they
> > can easily be set in rc.conf, by hand or by sysinstall.
> > 
> 	[ML]  You do not really want these on the command line for
> everyone to see with ps. (nor in rc.conf for everyone to see with e.g.
> cat)

Hmm... how to do this then?  The sppp setup code in rc.* allows username/password
to be specified.  Can it be done in the environment then?  (If rc.conf is visable
then the sppp config gives usernames and passwords away as it stands today.)

Joe
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