> >This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in > >files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by > >everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the > >password is replaced by a string of question marks in log files. > > It would have seemed a little better it pppd/chat would make the > passwords in the logfiles unreadable by default and require a special > switch to make it readable, rather than the way it currently is.
How is pppd/chat supposed to guess that what you pass to the ISP is a password ? This would not work unless you decide to not show anything in the log files. -- Michel Beland [EMAIL PROTECTED] professionnel de recherche tel: (514)369-5223 fax: (514)369-3880 CERCA (CEntre de Recherche en Calcul Applique) 5160, boul. Decarie, bureau 400(423), Montreal (Quebec), Canada, H3X 2H9