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Sorry for reposting this question, but somehow my posts to the newsgroup
never make it to the list and many posting of others seam to miss too:(,
so please reply by email too. thanks
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Hai,
for starters: the longer I have Debian GNU/Linux the happier I get,
and the more often I find what I need in the docs,
but not this one:(
Recently my IPS changed from chat to PAP, and now I find my password
in the ppp.log file. I know that file has restricted access rights,
but I prefer to have no passwords lying around, besides Debian ships
with an X configuration where the console messages are routed to an
xterm on the XDM login screen, so there they are for everyone to read!
Previously I used chat scripts only (no PAP authentication once logged
into my IPS), and in there you have flags (\q) to suppress listing of
the password in the ppp.log files. How to achief this with PAP or CHAP?
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I got this one reply of Eric G. Miller suggesting to use pppconfig and
have the password and userid in the pap-secrets file. Unfortunately that
was no cure, as that was exactly what I already had done:(.
the ppp.log file reads something like:
Jun 27 13:30:21 vvs pppd[16672]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 27 13:30:21 vvs pppd[16672]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
...
Jun 27 13:30:43 vvs chat[16672]: send (\d)
Jun 27 13:30:44 vvs pppd[16671]: Serial connection established.
Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic
0x1b9a3fac>]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic
0x1b9a3fac>]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x28 <mru 1600> <magic
0x682cc4e0> <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap>]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x28 <mru 1600> <magic
0x682cc4e0> <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap>]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x1b9a3fac]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="my-user-id"
password="my-password"]
Jun 27 13:30:49 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user="my-user-id"
password="my-password"]
and there they are, so what did I do wrong? how to prevent this?
just ran pppconfig, selected PAP protocol and kept all the default awnsers.
by the way, I'm still running (mainly) ham (Debian 2.0)
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groetjes, carel
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groetjes, carel
