From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 02:09:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA28639 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 02:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pino.ngonet.be (pino.ngonet.be [193.190.166.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA28633 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 02:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gonzo.ngonet.be (tommie.ngonet.be [193.190.166.2]) by pino.ngonet.be (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA23427; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 10:00:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960802090215.00685cf8@ppp-gw> X-Sender: gul@ppp-gw X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 11:02:15 +0200 To: Brett Glass From: Gunter Loos Subject: Re: PPP server Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:06 1/08/96 -0600, you wrote: >Good advice! Thank you. One other question: What should the permissions on >ppp.secret be? If the file is public, there are no secrets. But if it's >not, the user's account can't read it.... > >--Brett > > Well, if I remember right: its /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, not ppp.options. Memory's fading... Yeah well: I always put it at 0500 or so: just root (which starts up ppp) is able to read it. But then again: there's a security bug in ppp, so you should turn the setuid bit off in /usr/sbin/ppp . Then it won't be able to read the passwd file anymore... Gul. . .__ . |Nationaal Centrum voor OntwikkelingsSamenwerking vzw, NgoNet _| _ [ __ | |Voice Gunter.Loos@+32 2 5392620 Fax +32 2 5391343 (_](/, [_./(_|| |mailto:gul@ngonet.be "You are all weirdos." - Sam the Eagle ----MijnEigenWoordenNietVanIemandAnders - MyOwnExpressionsNotSomeoneElses----