From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 8 5:45: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FCD914E98 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 05:44:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (1981 bytes) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:44:23 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-11) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #13) id m112DXK-0001bzC; Thu, 8 Jul 99 14:44 METDST Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup In-Reply-To: <19990708001733.A34785@dva.in-berlin.de> from Boris Staeblow at "Jul 8, 99 00:17:34 am" To: balu@dva.in-berlin.de (Boris Staeblow) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:44:22 +0200 (METDST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1139 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From the keyboard of Boris Staeblow: > >> Why is rc.conf readable by world?! > > > >Why not? > > What about that: > > spppconfig_isp0="authproto=chap myauthname=foo myauthsecret='top secret' > hisauthname=some-gw hisauthsecret='another secret'" I'm not quite satisfied with the way the passwords are configured with spppcontrol. Not to talk about writing those passwords into rc.conf. At that time (and even now) Joerg and i put that into rc.conf, it was (and is) much better to have this in rc.conf than having nothing at all. A way might be to have those passwords (md5 ?) encrypted in a file, which is then handed via spppcontrol into the kernel and are decrypted and used only for the time they are actually needed ? Of course, i currently do not even have the time to think about how to implement this ... hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message