Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial > up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so > appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an > account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your ISP password, > which would be a bad thing.
That's right ! > Ok, to begin with you can make it so that chat doesn't log your > password by putting a "\q" in front of it. In my chatscript > (/etc/ppp.chatscript on a Debian 1.3.1 machine) I have: I forgot to say that I'm using a ISDN card and my script use ippd ! So the passwordis on /etc/ppp/isdn-auth ! I think ppp.chatscript only works when using modem that isn't ISDN ! How could I resolve it !? > (This next bit is directed at the list) > I was going to add more, but then I noticed that the pipe xconsole > reads is world-read - does this strike anyone else as a security > hole? Surely the information dumped into /dev/xconsole is as > sensitive as that dumped into /var/log/messages, right? As I could see .... the information that appears on /var/log/messages doesn't appears at allon xconsole ! On /var/log/messages doesn't appears my password ! Best regards, Nuno Carvalho -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null