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Date:      Fri, 02 Aug 1996 11:02:15 +0200
From:      Gunter Loos <Gul@ngonet.be>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPP server
Message-ID:  <1.5.4.32.19960802090215.00685cf8@ppp-gw>

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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.



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